In a letter to Illinois State Senator Bill Cunningham, Chairman of the Telecommunications and Information Technology Committee, public interest groups are calling for opposition to an amendment to the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which currently protects the biometric information of Illinois residents. BIPA will be a meaningless statute if the amendment is enacted, and it will strip Illinois residents of rights they currently enjoy and have enjoyed for a decade. The amendment will make BIPA inapplicable to most biometric databases and work done today. It has the effect of removing BIPA’s original intent to protect consumers.
