NYC's New Biometric Privacy Law 'An Indication of What Is to Come'
New York City's new biometric privacy ordinance will open up companies that qualify as "commercial establishments" to private right of action suits. But scope of the law may be too limited to impact how businesses handle data outside the Big Apple—for now.
July 13, 2021 at 11:30 AM
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PrivacySmile for the cameras—or the facial recognition software, as the case may be. The Biometric Identifier Information (BII) law that New York City enacted July 9 will likely send companies scrambling to comply in order to avoid costly private right of action claims brought by consumers. But the impact that the law has outside of the Big Apple is likely to be negligible given its fairly limited scope and jurisdiction.
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