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Doesn't seem to apply here.

> BIPA establishes standards for how companies must handle Illinois consumers’ biometric information. In addition to its notice and consent requirement, the law prohibits any company from selling or otherwise profiting from consumers’ biometric information.

https://www.aclu-il.org/campaigns-initiatives/biometric-info...

Pretty sure that does not cover a face database indexing your own photos/videos, running locally on your own computer. If it did, that would be extremely silly.

Yeah, that’s been a thing in photo software for at least like 20 years. I remember using it as a teenager for my parents

I think you're right in this case, but Illinois lawmakers are generally extremely silly, so I wouldn't put it past them.

Why would the law make exemptions for running the search on on a computer that has the database.

Because outlawing the local facial recognition that software like Lightroom and Apple Photos has offered for decades would be extraordinarily silly?

Sure. I guess the intent is the main difference.

Face search? What do you mean?