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Report Link Employers Must Comply With The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
Ford & Harrison LLP - January 16, 2009
With increasing frequency, employers are using "biometric information" of their employees as a means of identification for an array of work-related transactions, such as background screening, computer login, timekeeping, and facility access. In October 2008, the Illinois legislature enacted the Biometric Information Privacy Act (the "Act"), 740 ILCS 14/1 et seq., to regulate the collection, use, safeguarding, and storage of biometric information by private entities and to address public concerns regarding use of biometric information. "Private entities" under the Act include "individual[s], partnership[s], corporation[s], limited liability company[ies], association[s], or other group, however organized." As noted below, the definition contemplates private entities who collect biometric information for employment purposes.
Report Link Illinois Enacts Social Security Number Confidentiality Law (pdf).
Vedder Price - August 04, 2006
Effective July 1, 2006, Illinois law restricts the use of SSNs by private-sector employers. Designed to help protect individuals from identity theft, the law prohibits all nongovernmental employers in Illinois from:

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