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Amazon, Microsoft Team Against Facial Recognition Lawsuits

Amazon, Microsoft Team Against Facial Recognition Lawsuits Cloud-computing and major tech company rivals Amazon and Microsoft have now teamed up to defend themselves against twin lawsuits that are challenging how the companies built their facial recognition software. by Katherine Anne Long, The Seattle Times / April 16, 2021 Shutterstock/greenbutterfly (TNS) Cloud-computing and crosstown rivals Amazon and Microsoft have teamed up to defend themselves against twin lawsuits challenging how the companies built their facial recognition software. Illinois residents  Steven Vance  and  Tim Janecyk  uploaded images of themselves to the photo-sharing website Flickr in the mid-2000s. Without their knowledge,  IBM included their faces in a data set of 1 million images, called Diversity in Faces, intended to help train facial-recognition algorithms to better distinguish between people of color something fac

Microsoft, Amazon Can t Ditch Face ID Privacy Claims

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Microsoft, Amazon Can t Ditch Face ID Privacy Claims Law360 (March 16, 2021, 10:34 PM EDT) A Washington federal judge declined to toss a pair of putative class actions accusing Microsoft and Amazon of violating Illinois residents privacy rights in the course of an arms race to develop facial recognition products, rejecting the companies arguments that their conduct fell outside the purview of Illinois unique biometric privacy law.  Chicago residents Steven Vance and Tim Janecyk last year filed separate but nearly identical lawsuits against Amazon and Microsoft claiming that the tech giants violated Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by using a data set compiled by IBM containing geometric scans of their faces without their permission. 

Google Gets Pause In Biometric Suit Over Face ID Arms Race

A California federal judge decided Friday to halt litigation over Illinois residents' claims that Google violated their biometric privacy rights in an "arms race" to develop facial recognition products until a related case moves further along in court.

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