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This bill amends the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) to create specific exemptions for vehicle safety technology. The bill introduces two new definitions: "vehicle safety purpose," which refers to promoting driver, occupant, and roadway safety through warnings or alerts about issues like driver distraction, fatigue, seatbelt use, and pedestrian detection; and "vehicle safety technology," which is defined as a system that uses images from inside or outside a vehicle to predict safety-related events. The bill allows such technologies to temporarily collect and process biometric identifiers to make safety predictions, with the critical condition that these identifiers cannot be retained longer than necessary for the safety purpose and cannot be used to identify specific individuals. Specifically, the bill adds a new section (Section 25(f)) that explicitly states BIPA does not apply to entities using vehicle safety technology for safety purposes, provided they adhere to the strict guidelines about biometric data retention and usage. This modification aims to enable advanced safety technologies in vehicles while maintaining privacy protections by preventing long-term storage or individual identification of biometric data.

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