Biometric Privacy Claims Over NBA Video Game May Proceed Against Amazon

Mealey's (April 7, 2023, 11:41 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — Adopting a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation, a Washington federal judge ruled that a plaintiff sufficiently alleges violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by the provision of cloud computing services by Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) to a video game company that incorporates users’ facial scans into a basketball video game, leading her to deny the tech firm’s year-old motion to dismiss the putative class complaint....