If Amazon employees or hackers accessed personal footage from your Ring camera without your consent, you might be entitled to a hefty payout.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is issuing $5.6 million in refunds to certain Ring customers after it found that employees and contractors were unlawfully accessing private video content to use for algorithm training and other internal purposes.
Amazon-owned Ring was also accused of not implementing proper security protections to prevent hackers from accessing users’ accounts and footage without their consent.
“These practices led to egregious violations of users’ privacy,” the FTC said in Thursday’s notice.
In June 2023, Amazon settled two privacy-related suits with the FTC, one related to
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