Pritzker signs biometrics privacy law reform; New law will limit risk of business-ending judgments – Cook County Record

Under the legislation known as Senate Bill 2979, the the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act law is now revised to declare that "individual violations" can only be counted per person, not per biometric scan. Thus, BIPA plaintiffs could only demand $1,000-$5,000 each, not multiplied against potentially hundreds or even thousands of potential biometric scans per plaintiff over five years.