Court rulings supercharge Illinois’ strongest-in-nation biometric privacy law
Illinois Supreme Court rulings strengthen the state's biometric privacy law, fueling a heated debate between privacy advocates and business leaders.
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Statehouse & Chicago ReporterHannah has been covering Illinois government and politics since 2014, and since then has worked for a variety of outlets from NPR affiliate stations to a startup newsletter. She’s a graduate of both the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the U of I’s Springfield campus, where she received an M.A. through the Public Affairs Reporting program and got her start reporting in the Capitol. Contact Hannah
Illinois Supreme Court rulings strengthen the state's biometric privacy law, fueling a heated debate between privacy advocates and business leaders.
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