Consumers who sued Amazon must now arbitrate claims that the company’s Alexa device, a digital assistant, illegally recorded their voices and stored their voiceprints in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). In its Feb. 5opinion, the court ruled on the parties’ dueling motions. It denied the plaintiffs’ request for remand to state court after agreeing with Amazon that the plaintiffs had Article III standing. As to two of the three named plaintiffs, the court granted Amazon’s motion to compel arbitration.
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On Friday in the Central District of California, defendant home security company Ring filed a motion to compel individual arbitration for the plaintiffs in a case alleging that Ring is liable for the hacking of their Ring accounts and devices by bad actors and additionally for allegedly sharing their personal identifying information with third parties without consent.
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