In Brief: In a sign of the reduced power of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a judge threw out a lawsuit which sought $75,000+ in damages, determining the amount would only be about $15,000
This is due to a business-friendly bill the governor signed recently, which stated that when biometric data has been improperly obtained, a business can only been charged for one violation, even if the data was obtained multiple times.