The FTC alleged on at least two occasions Ring employees improperly accessed the private Ring videos of women. The FTC said that Ring employees and contractors were able to view, download, and transfer customers’ sensitive video data for their own purposes as a result of “dangerously overbroad access and lax attitude toward privacy and security.”Īccording to the FTC’s complaint, Ring gave “every employee - as well as hundreds of Ukraine-based third-party contractors - full access to every customer video, regardless of whether the employee or contractor actually needed that access to perform his or her job function.” The FTC also said that Ring staff and contractors “could also readily download any customer’s videos and then view, share, or disclose those videos at will.” News of the settlement was first reported by Reuters. The FTC confirmed the settlement a short time later. District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday. ![]() ![]() Ring, the Amazon-owned maker of video surveillance devices, will pay $5.8 million over claims brought by the Federal Trade Commission that Ring employees and contractors had broad and unrestricted access to customers’ videos for years.
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