Amazon has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle a privacy lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concerning its subsidiary company, Ring. The lawsuit alleged that Ring had granted employees and third-party contractors unrestricted access to customer video content, leading to violations of privacy and security breaches.
According to the federal complaint, certain individuals misused their access privileges to exploit Ring’s video content, resulting in cases of sexual harassment, stalking, racial slurs directed at children, and other privacy violations. The FTC’s investigation revealed that these security issues persisted even after Amazon’s acquisition of Ring in 2018, spanning from 2016 to 2020.
