Amazon takes a small BIPA win; ID scan provider for weed store accused

Biometrics privacy cases in the U.S. state of Illinois continue to bubble to the surface.

In the newest U.S. biometrics privacy pleadings, Amazon has eked out the merest fraction of victory in a case involving its face-scanning Photos service. And the use of ID verification by a national retail chain selling cannabis products has sparked a new suit involving TokenWorks, a verification software firm.

Amazon convinced a Cook County (Ill.) circuit court judge to dismiss the first of a …

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