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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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

Amazon will pay more than $30 million to the Federal Trade Commission to settle two separate lawsuits over privacy concerns—one involving the smart doorbell Ring, which gave customer data to ...

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 ...

Ring and Amazon have come under federal scrutiny after an Alabama resident accused the companies of negligent security practices. Ring and Amazon face a class-action lawsuit after hackers took ...

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 ...