Earlier this month, more than 1.4 million long- and short-term residents of Illinois started receiving checks for up to $397, and experts say more checks from privacy lawsuits are likely on the horizon.
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"It isn't that people value or don't value biometric privacy – it's that what it means to value privacy varies a lot from context to context," Kugler says."The same underlying technology might enable both the innocuous uses and terrifying results." For now, Kugler says, national legislation is probably a long way off — but you can expect more state-by-state lawsuits and settlements in the years to come.
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