New York lawmakers rang in the new year by introducing sweeping biometric privacy legislation that would impose a carbon copy of Illinois’ stringent Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) to the Apple State.

Known as the New York Biometric Privacy Act (BPA) (AB 27), the bill—if enacted—would impose significant compliance burdens on companies handling biometric data. More importantly, the bill, which provides for a private right of action, would likely bring with it a tsunami of class action litigation akin to that seen with BIPA since 2019.