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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
CST Editorial Board

To defend our privacy, biometrics law must be protected

Sometimes, what the Legislature doesn’t enact can be as important as what it does.

For another session, the Illinois Legislature has wisely neither repealed nor weakened a pioneering law that protects the biometric information of each of the state’s residents, the Biometric Information Privacy Act. The Legislature stood firm even though many big tech companies would like to boot the law into cyberspace.

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