Judge: Amazon Immune From Workers’ Temperature Scan Class Suit Under PREP Act

(June 6, 2024, 9:18 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A warehouse worker’s putative class complaint accusing her employer of violating Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by scanning workers’ temperatures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 was terminated by a federal magistrate judge in Illinois who found that the employer was entitled to statutory immunity based on the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act)....