An employee from a skilled nursing and rehab center in Illinois is taking his employer to court over mandatory fingerprint scans he says violate a state privacy law.Martin Ragsdale filed suit in Illinois circuit court against Paramount of Oak Park Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, according to Law360. Ragsdale said Paramount violated hundreds or thousands of its employees' right to privacy by requiring twice-daily fingerprint scans: one as they clock in, one as they clock out.Specifically, Ragsdale said the rehab and skilled nursing facility is breaking the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a law that regulates the collection and storage of biometric data such as fingerprints, iris scans or face recognition technology.The suit claimed the “invasive” fingerprint scans put workers' personal information at risk of being stolen in data breaches or other privacy lapses.”Unlike a Social Security number, which can be changed, no amount of time or money can compensate [workers] if their fingerprints are compromised by the lax procedures through which defendants capture, collect, store and use their workers' biometrics,” according to the suit, as reported by Law360.Ragsdale has asked the court to stop Paramount from collecting more fingerprint data and force the provider to destroy the information it has on file. He's also asked for an unspecified amount of damages and legal fees.
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