Amazon and Microsoft won summary judgment in two class action lawsuits filed in federal court in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington asserting violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. While the facts of the cases are unique—the defendants received a data set that was developed by a third party to help reduce bias in facial recognition technology—the decisions should be persuasive benchmarks for future courts considering the geographic reach of BIPA.

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