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Last week, as the Illinois legislative session nears its close, the Illinois House of Representatives voted to enact Senate Bill 2979, the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
Nine Republicans joined Democrats in the House supermajority to pass the measure in an 81-30 vote. The bill’s next stop is to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk for his consideration.
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The law, considered among the strictest of its kind, requires companies to gain consent before they collect and store biometric information such as fingerprints or retina scans.