Amazon Web Services Defeats Biometric Privacy Class Action

Amazon Web Services Inc. defeated a proposed class action alleging it violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act through the image-recognition services it provided to the Wonolo job-search app.

AWS didn’t have sufficient links with Illinois to satisfy the requirements for personal jurisdiction over the company, Judge Elaine E. Bucklo of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said Wednesday.

Bucklo granted AWS’s motion to dismiss, and denied as moot plaintiff Cynthia Redd’s motion for remand to state court for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.

Redd alleged in a lawsuit originally filed in the Circuit Court of Cook ...