The following report is by Biometric Update:
The proposed class action (2:23-cv-00852) has been filed in the Western District Court of Washington. The named plaintiffs, Suzanne Mallouk, Alfredo Rodriguez Perez and Arjun Dhawan, claim their privacy rights were violated when visiting New York City stores that used Amazon’s One palm biometric scanners.
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(The trio had filed separate cases but joined their claims in the state of Washington, which is home to both defendants.)
No specific sum is sought in the trial.
Biometric authentication as a method of payment at Amazon’s Go stores was introduced in New York City in 2019. One scanners have since been added to other stores owned by Amazon. It is also alleged that Amazon uses a person’s size and shape to identify them in the stores.
SEE: Panera Bread Debuts Amazon One’s “Frictionless” Palm-Reading Payment System
Each plaintiff alleges that Amazon is violating a 2021 city law by scanning palms without first posting required notices. That year, Starbucks went into business with Amazon in the first of multiple Starbucks-Go stores.
Plaintiff court documents charge that Starbucks “sells, trades and shares customers’ biometric identifier information with Amazon in exchange for various things of value, and otherwise profits” from the deal.
SEE: Select Starbucks Locations In The U.K. Will Now Become Cashless In October
Specifically, the defendants are charged with “collecting, retaining, storing, converting, using, sharing and profiting” from hand geometries in violation of New York City’s Biometric Identifier Information Law (BII Law).
The defendants were obligated by the law to post caution signs on entry doors, but reportedly failed to do so.
According to court documents, the plaintiffs wrote to Amazon complaining about the alleged violations. One plaintiff also wrote to Starbucks but received to reply.
Amazon did not reply to all of the plaintiffs. In the case where the company did reply, it reportedly did not expressly respond in writing saying the situation had been cured, in legal lingo.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Well gee whiz, the oh-so innocent Amazon and Starbucks stole and illegally distributed your personal data: who would have seen this coming?
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
Proverbs 11:15
Don’t trust these places and do not use their devices. Simple as that.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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