Senate Democrats, business groups at odds over biometric privacy law

Statehouse Democrats and business groups couldn’t reach a compromise during the legislative session earlier this year on changing the state’s controversial Biometric Information Privacy Act. (AP file)

Illinois Senate President Don Harmon told public radio talk show host Brian Mackey in late June that some of the most prominent business association leaders had “punched us in the nose” after Senate Democrats devised what he called a “good faith solution” to solve problems created by the state’s super-controversial Biometric Information Privacy Act.

Harmon also claimed the Senate Democratic proposal that the business groups attacked was “very friendly to the business community that has been asking for these changes.”