A year and a half has passed since one of the most remarkable jury verdicts in Illinois history. The Rogers v. BNSF case was the first Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act ("BIPA").
BNSF Railway Co. Monday agreed to pay $75 million to settle a landmark Illinois biometrics privacy case after a jury found the company violated the privacy rights of thousands of employees, a decrease from an initial award $228 million.
Since its enactment in 2008, Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has produced a wave of privacy-related litigation across the United States, and 2023 was no exception.
This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. Since its enactment in 2008, Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy.
BIPA claim accrual- Where Illinois Supreme Court determined that new BIPA claim accrues under the Act each time a private entity scans or transmits an individual’s biometric identifier or information, restaurant chain’s motion for judgment on the pleadings was denied.The.