As privacy takes center stage, proposal in Springfield would gut law protecting biometric data, opponents say
State lawmakers are considering a proposal that opponents argue would gut protections for data on people's individual biological characteristics, just as the nation's attention turns toward online privacy in the wake of Facebook's massive data exposure scandal.
Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act has been called one of the strictest laws of its kind in the nation and has turned the state into a hotbed of lawsuits over alleged misuses of data from facial, fingerprint and iris scans. Privacy experts says protecting that type of information is critical
