Amazon’s Ring unit has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that its doorbells illegally spied on users.

The Federal Trade Commission revealed in court documents Wednesday that at least 55,000 U.S. customers were the victims of 2019 hacks targeting Ring, the Amazon-owned home surveillance camera company.

Amazon's Ring camera is marketed as a safety device, but a new government lawsuit claims the company gave its employees and contractors "unfettered" access to personal videos and failed to protect ...

In the suit, Amazon said that more than a dozen fraudulent refunds were issued from June 2022 to May 2023 for expensive items including laptops, gaming consoles and a 24-karat gold coin, and that ...

An Amazon logo on the company's building in Schoenefeld near Berlin, Germany, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File) SAN DIEGO (CN) — Amazon cannot force a case claiming it spied on its Flex ...

Amazon.com and Ring were hit with a patent infringement lawsuit Thursday in Texas Western District Court. The suit was brought by Ramey LLP on behalf of Viaas Inc. The case is 6:22-cv-01041, Viaas ...

A former employee of Amazon.com's Ring doorbell camera unit spied for months on female customers in 2017 with cameras placed in bedrooms and bathrooms, the FTC said in a court filing.

Amazon will have to pay more than $30 million in consumer refunds and fines for violating the privacy of customers who own Alexa and Ring devices under settlement agreements filed Wednesday.

A new service, called Ring Home Premium, will include features like 24/7 recording and AI-powered video search, starting at $19.99 per month when it launches on November 5 in the U.S. Less ...

Amazon bought California-based Ring in February of 2018 for a reported $1 billion.. The company also Wednesday settled a separate suit brought on by the FTC for $25 million relating to its ...

The suit targets the parts of Amazon’s business that service ... Amazon agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle an FTC lawsuit that accused Ring workers and hackers of illegally spying on ...

As of July 1st of this year, Amazon has provided Ring footage to US law enforcement 11 times without user consent or a court order, according to a disclosure shared by Senator Edward Markey on ...