Amazon and Microsoft were granted summary judgment in a federal lawsuit that alleged its use of IBM’s Diversity in Faces Dataset violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, Biometric Update reports. The complaint against the companies alleged the Diversity in Faces Dataset contained biometric data obtained without the permission of two Illinois residents. However, the judge sided with Amazon and Microsoft and upheld that use of the data was confined to datacenters in New York and Washington.
19 Oct. 2022
Judge grants 'summary judgment' for Amazon, Microsoft in BIPA cases
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