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Illinois Policy – While Illinois courts Amazon, privacy litigation threatens tech firms, Illinois employers

Illinois Policy – While Illinois courts Amazon, privacy litigation threatens tech firms, Illinois employers

Steve DelBianco, the president and CEO of e-commerce association NetChoice, in an Oct. 24 op-ed in The State Journal-Register called out “over-regulations” and “special interest attorneys” for “placing more hurdles on the path to prosperity for Illinois’s tech scene.”

DelBianco criticized the flurry of class-action litigation under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act, or BIPA, which he said plaintiffs’ attorneys are pursuing “to increase their bottom line while harming some of our country’s leading tech companies.”

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