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.”
Companies routinely collect biometric data like facial recognition and fingerprint scans. But in Illinois that’s illegal, unless the companies first obtain informed consent. Lots of lawsuits have been filed…
