Amazon Won’t Have to Turn Over All of Its ‘Just Walk Out’ Code

Amazon.com Inc. succeeded in convincing an Illinois federal court that it doesn’t have to provide plaintiffs in a Biometric Information Privacy Act case the development branch of its Just Walk Out technology source code.

The development branch might be relevant to the BIPA case, but requiring Amazon to provide it isn’t proportional given the needs of the case, including determining if the technology company collected the biometric identifiers of customers, Magistrate Judge Gabriel A. Fuentes said Monday for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Amazon’s Just Walk Out tech had been deployed at its Fresh and ...