ANALYSIS: Employees Fought for Biometric Privacy From AI in 2023

Federal lawsuits citing violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in 2023 reached their second-highest volume in the statute’s 15-year history. And for the first time since 2021, employment-related complaints outnumbered consumer-related complaints for two consecutive quarters—with artificial intelligence at issue in most of them.

This flip suggests that businesses may be quick to adopt AI technology to monitor their employees, but they are slow to implement the required data privacy measures that go along with these tools.

Suits Against Employers Continue to Rise

Allegations of BIPA violations in federal court increased in 2023 to 81—up from 2022’s 73 ...