Illinois considers how best to neuter its landmark biometric privacy law

Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Illinois finally are debating a viable way to save businesses using biometric scanners mountainous fines when they violate local data privacy law.

But pols think they have a way to also protect people’s identifiers from being misused in ways that would disadvantage them for life.

Ever since the first huge fines were handed down as a result of Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act class actions, the question has been asked: When will politicians act …

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