On Nov. 13, 2024, the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois held that the amendment to the Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act applied retroactively and determined that the plaintiff’s damages were limited to a single recovery for the same BIPA violation. Nine days later, a different judge on the same court ruled that the law did not apply retroactively.
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.