Amazon will pay $5.8 million following spying allegations against the unit under the Ring settlement.
$5.8 Million Amazon’s Ring Settlement Over Doorbell Spying and Harassment Allegations
As part of the Ring settlement, Amazon will have to pay $5.8 million to settle the doorbell spying and harassment allegations filed by the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday.
Amazon’s Ring settlement addressed the complaints against them after some employees were caught spying on their customers through their doorbells and accessing their videos, including their intimate and private videos filmed inside their bathrooms and bedrooms.
According to Ring’s settlement, the company failed to protect their customers from the harassment they have suffered at the hands of their own employees through the videos they have collected using Ring’s products.
Amazon’s Ring Settlement Addresses the Harassment and Cyber Attacks on Several Customers
Before the recent Ring settlement, the company reportedly had addressed cyber-attack issues, but the terrible actions continued as they still failed to protect several customers until now.
Aside from the harassment allegations, authorities also discovered before the Ring settlement that several customers of the company also reported cases of multiple cyber-attacks after receiving insults, racist comments, and threats from hackers.
Following Amazon’s Ring settlement, the company will have to delete all the private videos in its system and be banned from using voice and geolocation information to create its products, The Verge reported.
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