{"id":4572,"date":"2025-03-08T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T12:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/employers-face-new-biometric-privacy-suits-as-litigators-revive-old-illinois-law\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T12:28:03","slug":"employers-face-new-biometric-privacy-suits-as-litigators-revive-old-illinois-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/employers-face-new-biometric-privacy-suits-as-litigators-revive-old-illinois-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers Face New Biometric Privacy Suits as Litigators Revive Old Illinois Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Illinois has been a hot spot for biometric privacy litigation in the past few years, and, despite recent legislative changes aimed at limiting potential damages,<b>\u00a0<\/b>the venue still appears set as a litigation hotspot as attorneys may be gravitating toward a new line of privacy claims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>In recent years, waves of privacy disputes have emerged under the state&#8217;s Biometric Information Privacy Act as employees challenged how employers stored data, such as fingerprints used to clock in and out of work. Plaintiff-favorable rulings in BIPA cases potentially put corporations at risk for exorbitant costs for each violation, but recent legislative changes put a limit on the lucrative payout potential of $5,000 per violation. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois has been a hot spot for biometric privacy litigation in the past few years, and, despite recent legislative changes aimed at limiting potential damages,\u00a0the venue still appears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3433,3800,422,1001,153,3845,1685,4559,558],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-biometric","tag-employers","tag-face","tag-illinois","tag-law","tag-litigators","tag-privacy","tag-revive","tag-suits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}