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Microsoft, Amazon defend use of biometric data to improve facial recognition products

By Amy Miller
  • 13 Apr 2021 19:24
  • 13 Apr 2021 19:24
Microsoft and Amazon urged a US federal judge today to dismiss Illinois residents’ claims that the companies violated an Illinois biometric privacy law by using facial-recognition scans from an IBM dataset to improve their facial-recognition technologies.
A lawyer for Illinois residents argued that under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, companies

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Amy Miller

Senior Correspondent


Amy is responsible for the coverage of an array of regulatory and litigation issues pertaining to the Internet, including privacy, data security and antitrust. Formerly a legal reporter for the ALM media group, Miller has closely followed legal trends in Silicon Valley and covered corporate legal departments for online and print publications including The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, and The Recorder. Miller is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is an award-winning journalist with expertise ranging from education and legal reporting to computer-assisted reporting.

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