People shop at the newly opened Amazon Go Store on May 07, 2019 in New York City.
The cashier-less store, the first of this type of store, called Amazon Go, accepts cash and is the 12th such store in the United States located at Brookfield Place in downtown New York.
Amazon did not alert its New York City customers that they were being monitored by facial recognition technology, a lawsuit filed Thursday alleges.
The lawsuit says that Amazon only recently put up signs informing New York customers of its use of facial recognition technology, more than a year after the disclosure law went into effect.
Perez is represented by the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a legal advocacy group devoted to New York privacy protections.