The Security Industry Association (SIA) is advocating for the use biometric applications in Illinois, which could be threatened due to ongoing litigation. 

In 2021, a U.S. District approved a historic $650 million settlement to resolve claims that Meta, formerly Facebook, collected and stored users’ facial data without consent in violation of an Illinois privacy law. The judge's decision allows non-Facebook users in Illinois to put Meta on trial over its use of facial recognition technology, but to win the case they must prove Meta scanned and mapped their faces in uploaded photos.