Known as the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA), the law was enacted in 1998, and requires businesses to safeguard employees’ genetic information, including family medical histories. But several major decisions affecting the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) lawsuits have encouraged plaintiffs’ lawyers to file endless class actions resulting in massive payouts – and it may be the reason a flood of GIPA lawsuits could soon follow.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Businesses have the freedom to move out of Illinois.
Either put up or shut up.
IL Democrats main rules for new laws — how to drive business out of the state — and how to make a buck off of it
Great business climate, eh?