Amazon’s Ring cameras were allegedly used by employees and third-party contractors to spy on customers. The FTC has filed a complaint against Amazon, which may result in a $5.8 million settlement. Employees had unrestricted access to customer videos and could download, save, and share them. Some employees abused this access, including viewing videos of female users in private areas. Ring made changes to access rights but further abuses occurred. Ring also failed to implement security measures, resulting in security incidents and compromised devices. As part of the settlement, Ring is required to delete customer videos and data collected before 2018. In a separate settlement, Amazon agreed to pay $25 million for failing to protect children’s privacy in relation to Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data.

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    192 years ago

    The saddest thing is that even when the general population know this, they still get them. How does this company even win?! Ughhh.

    • @Mac
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      142 years ago

      Yep. Told my mom about this stuff and where women were being spied on in their rooms and whatnot.
      She somehow blames the women for having cameras in their rooms. Wat