Full Text of HR0681 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The right to privacy is a fundamental right | 3 | | protected by the United States
Constitution and the Illinois | 4 | | Constitution; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Article I, Section 12 of the Illinois Constitution | 6 | | provides for a remedy in the law for
"all injuries and wrongs" | 7 | | to privacy; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, The citizens of Illinois have been subjected to an | 9 | | ever-increasing amount of online
surveillance from private | 10 | | companies that collect, share, and sell their data for profit | 11 | | without their
knowledge or consent; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, According to the Pew Research Center, the distrust | 13 | | of technology and technology
companies has reached an all-time | 14 | | high, as over 80% of Americans believe they have very
little to | 15 | | no control over their data, and that the potential risks of | 16 | | collecting data now outweigh the
benefit of such collection; | 17 | | and | 18 | | WHEREAS, In December of 2019, the National Institute of | 19 | | Standards and Technology issued a
report finding concrete | 20 | | evidence of racial bias in the use of facial recognition | 21 | | technology,
concluding that the majority of face recognition |
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inaccurately | 2 | | identify a photograph of the face of an African-American or | 3 | | East Asian person,
compared to the face of a white person; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, Current law fails to provide adequate protections | 5 | | for children when it comes to the
collection, sharing, and | 6 | | aggregation of all types of data; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Illinois has long been a leader in protecting the | 8 | | privacy of the citizens of Illinois
through the passage of the | 9 | | Biometric Information Privacy Act, which prohibits companies | 10 | | from
unlawfully collecting fingerprints and using facial | 11 | | recognition without consent; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Over the last decade, technological advancement | 13 | | has significantly outpaced
current law, leading to significant | 14 | | gaps in Illinois law and a "wild west" environment when it
| 15 | | comes to the protection of the vast majority of consumer data; | 16 | | therefore, be it
| 17 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 18 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 19 | | we urge Illinois to continue to be a leader in
the protection | 20 | | of the privacy of its citizens by codifying the Illinois | 21 | | Constitution's fundamental
right of privacy, which includes: | 22 | | (i) the right to consent before private data is collected or |
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(ii) the right to know with whom data is shared and | 2 | | sold, (iii) the right to have a company delete
data upon | 3 | | request, (iv) the right to opt-in to having data collected, | 4 | | shared, or sold, and (v) the
right to data portability; and be | 5 | | it further | 6 | | RESOLVED, That we declare January 28, 2020 as "Data Privacy | 7 | | Day" in the State of Illinois.
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