March 07, 2024
A California federal judge said Thursday she'll likely allow limited discovery in a proposed class action alleging Google violated Illinois residents' biometric privacy rights with facial data collected by IBM Corp., but she doubted the case "has legs" given that another federal judge has thrown out similar "dead-end" litigation.
October 17, 2022
A Washington federal judge on Monday tossed a pair of putative class actions accusing Microsoft and Amazon of violating Illinois residents' privacy rights through the use of facial recognition products, granting renewed motions for summary judgment from both companies.
July 26, 2022
Amazon.com Inc. was accused in a federal court filing Tuesday of "rehashing its failed arguments" by claiming it can't be held liable for misusing a group of Illinois residents' biometric data in a photo dataset allegedly used to improve facial recognition software because the tech giant never used or benefited from the photos.
May 20, 2022
Amazon says it can't be held liable for allegedly mishandling a group of Illinois residents' biometrics contained in a photo data set the company received from IBM because it never used or benefited from their information.
October 08, 2021
Two Chicago residents who have accused Amazon, Microsoft and other tech giants of violating Illinois' landmark biometric privacy law by using a dataset containing geometric scans of their faces without their permission asked a Washington federal court on Friday to grant them class certification.
March 16, 2021
A Washington federal judge declined to toss a pair of putative class actions accusing Microsoft and Amazon of violating Illinois residents' privacy rights in the course of an "arms race" to develop facial recognition products, rejecting the companies' arguments that their conduct fell outside the purview of Illinois' unique biometric privacy law.
July 15, 2020
Technology industry behemoths including Amazon, Google and Microsoft are engaged in an "arms race" to develop facial recognition products that has involved stepping on the privacy rights of Illinois residents, according to a handful of lawsuits in California and Washington federal court.