Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
Statute
United States (Illinois)
· 2008
BIPA requires written consent before collecting a fingerprint, faceprint, voiceprint, retina or hand scan, mandates a published retention and destruction schedule, bans selling biometric data, and — uniquely — gives individuals a private right of action with statutory damages per violation. It is the most financially consequential technology statute in the United States, and it is a state law about fingerprints.
Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or
customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates
specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.
Regions
Industries
Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.