What hotels need to know about biometric privacy laws - Document - Gale OneFile: Hospit... - 0 views
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In order to avoid liability, employers should become familiar with biometric privacy acts, consumer privacy acts and data breach notification requirements.
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Currently, three states have enacted biometric privacy laws: Illinois, Texas and Washington.
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Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
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Several states have implemented some form of biometric privacy laws, with the gold standard coming from Illinois. Illinois' BIPA allows for private enforcement, stiff fines, and paying of attorney fees. BIPA prohibits collection, capture, purchasing or receiving a customer's biometric identifier/information. Safeguarding this data is perhaps more important than any other because it cannot be easily changed, if at all. Current lack of federal law and a patchwork of local regulations means that businesses and employees must be knowledgeable of rules and rights that affect them.