Ropes & Gray data, privacy & cybersecurity associate Matthew Cin spoke with Law360, about Illinois’s recent amendments to its Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Ever since it was enacted in 2008, BIPA, which can restrict companies from collecting and sharing biometric data without data subjects’ consent, has been a source of privacy-related litigation and prompted confusion around what constitutes a violation for the purpose of calculating damages. The amendments, which were signed into law earlier this month, provide clarity that a company only violates the statute once, even if it collects biometric data multiple times from the same person, using the same means. Read the full Law360 article here, and see further analysis of the amendments in our blog post here.