Shutterfly is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the company of “violating a state privacy law by compiling a database of ‘faceprints’,” MediaPost reports. The request responds to a lawsuit filed in June by Brian Norberg, who claims Shutterfly and its subsidiary ThisLife violated an Illinois biometrics privacy law by including his faceprint even though his photo was uploaded by someone else. But Shutterfly wrote in its dismissal motion, filed Friday with U.S. District Court Judge Charles Norgle in Illinois, “Helping a user re-identify his own friends within his own digital photo album does not violate any law.”
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