Amazon settles with FTC over Ring privacy violations

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Amazon settles with FTC over Ring privacy violations

Amazon.com Inc. agreed to pay $30.8 million (R608.7 million) to resolve two cases brought by the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday related to privacy lapses by its smart devices.

In one case, the FTC alleged that Amazon didn’t take steps to protect the privacy of users of its Ring video doorbell.

[Bloomberg]

 

[Jam Sandwich]

Amazon shuts down man’s “smart” home after automated doorbell allegedly committed an act of “racism”

A man by the name of Brandon Jackson was locked out of his so-called “smart home” recently after Amazon shut it all down due to allegedly “racist” statements he made that were picked up by the always-listening spy devices he owns. The Amazon Ring doorbell device locked Jackson out of his own...

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