A Brooklyn resident charged in a class action that Amazon’s New York City Amazon Go stores collected biometric data of customers without sufficient notification, which puts the company in violation of New York’s 2021 Biometric Identifier Information (BII) Law. The law, which came into effect in January 2022, requires companies to notify store customers of scanning or other electronic data collection via prominent in-store signage. Amazon Go stores, which established a track-in-store-pay-later shopping model, had, according to the suit, failed to sufficiently comply.

A survey by Digital Third Coast of more than 800 Americans found U.S. consumers are fearful they are being tracked wherever they go. Four in five were concerned about ad tracking, with Baby Boomers and Gen Z most concerned at 84% each. There’s also a level of paranoia about always being spied on, with 60% surveyed reporting they believe their phone is listening to them, 3 of 4 believing Alexa and other devices are always listening, and 60% reporting they believe the government is tracking their phone data.