Amazon Web Services Gets Biometric-Privacy Claims Trimmed

March 30, 2023, 8:20 PM UTC

Amazon Web Services Inc. must face alone one count of a proposed class action alleging it violated Illinois’ biometric privacy law in processing phone calls between the financial services firm John Hancock and its customers.

Christine McGoveran, Joseph Valentine and Amelia Rodriguez alleged that AWS and its contractor Pindrop Security Inc., a provider of biometric voice services, failed to publish a policy regarding the collection and destruction of biometric data, and illegally profited from the sharing of the data, in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

The lawsuit had also claimed that the Amazon.com Inc. unit didn’t get ...

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