FTC and State Attorneys General Poised for Strengthened Action on Biometric Privacy

While the U.S. historically has had certain protections for biometric data through privacy laws, most notably the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, swift developments in the U.S. privacy framework have poised regulators for an era of newfound enforcement activity related to business use of biometric data. For example, the scope of the U.S. state consumer privacy laws now explicitly covers biometric data, creating obligations that will be new for many U.S. businesses and providing landm