BIPA Plaintiff’s Response Due Feb. 10 to AWS Motion to Dismiss

U.S. District Judge Elaine Bucklo for Northern Illinois in Chicago set a Feb. 10 deadline for plaintiff Cynthia Redd to respond to defendant Amazon Web Services’ motion to dismiss her Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act class action (see 2301180009), said a clerk’s docket entry Thursday (docket 1:22-cv-06779). The AWS reply is due Feb. 24, it said. Redd alleges Wonolo, an app-based job placement company, used the AWS cloud-based software service Rekognition to verify the identities of Wonolo users who interacted with its app. By providing the Rekognition service to Wonolo, AWS violated the BIPA by possessing the plaintiff’s biometric data without developing and adhering to a publicly available retention and deletion schedule, Redd alleges. AWS’ motion to dismiss said her claims fail on multiple levels, asserting Redd doesn't allege she interacted with AWS in any way, or that AWS was even aware of her use of Wonolo.