Anker Innovations, maker of the Eufy camera, is accused in an Illinois federal court of violating the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act and other consumer laws.

It allegedly collects and holds face biometrics in violation of BIPA.

The judge in the case has rejected some arguments made by the plaintiffs, although it is unclear what impact the decisions will have.

That is because the judge is permitting the plaintiffs, a pair of Illinois residents, to re-argue the positions she dismissed in court.

They are charging Anker with, among other things, violation of biometric privacy and wiretap laws as well as unjust enrichment.

They want to file similar biometric privacy cases in the states of Massachusetts, Florida, California and New York. It is not immediately clear if decisions made in the Illinois case impact the others.

A central allegation in the case (No. 2022cv07174) is that face scans, sometimes from those of people waking past a system owner's video doorbell, were being stored insecurely in Amazon's Web Services clouds servers.

Court documents state that the vendor promised consumers that all recorded images would be "transmitted to you, and only you."

The plaintiffs , who are seeking $2 million in damages, further say Anker stated it would store any biometric identifiers locally. They also allege that security claims were ignored.