Business group pitches BIPA reform while flow of new cases continues

A business advocacy group is calling for a landmark biometric privacy law in the United States to be amended to limit potentially ruinous lawsuit payouts.

As the call was made came word of a two new, fairly typical, potential class actions. One was filed by a cook against his employer, a Wendy's fast-food chain in suburban Chicago and the other accuses an employee-services software firm.

The state of Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act, passed in 2008, requires non-government organizations to …

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