Members of the Senate Judiciary’s subcommittee on privacy met Monday to hear arguments on
Sponsored by Sen. Jason Barickman, R-Bloomington, the bill would give an entity 30 days to correct a potential infraction of the Biometric Information Privacy Act before a person could file a lawsuit against them unless there was a breach of the information. It would also give legal protection to companies that store biometric information in the form of algorithms. If accessed by a hacker, those groups of numbers would be meaningless, said Clark Kaericher, vice president of government affairs at the Illinois Chamber of Commerce.
“You can take a fingerprint scan and store it as a sequence of meaningless numbers,” he said. “We should encourage companies to do that.”
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Illinois lawmakers are looking at ways to change their state’s biometric privacy law after complaints from businesses and hundreds of lawsuits.
Members of the Senate Judiciary’s subcommittee on privacy met Monday to hear arguments on Senate Bill 300.
Sponsored by Sen. Jason Barickman, R-Bloomington, the bill would give an entity 30 days to correct a potential infraction of the Biometric Information Privacy Act before a person could file a lawsuit against them unless there was a breach of the information. It would also give legal protection to companies that store biometric information in the form of algorithms. If accessed by a hacker, those groups of numbers would be meaningless, said Clark Kaericher, vice president of government affairs at the Illinois Chamber of Commerce.