Amazon is paying nearly $30M to users of Ring surveillance cameras and Alexa devices as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations of privacy violations. NBC’s Danny Cevallos reports.
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This should be a settlement with everyone who's privacy was violated. This is also the reason why you never have cameras indoors unless it's a closed system only you have access to or you install a cut off switch on each camera so you can turn it on or off. Otherwise i don't recommend any ring cameras or other cameras indoors.
I don't have a Ring and Alexa is in the garage.
Delete ๐๐๐
25 million of BRIBERY money for who though?
If no violations of privacy then why paid for settlement?
Citizens first get duped by these corporations and then get duped by the government. Amazon giving 30m to the FCC will not compensate those who have had their rights violated. Furthermore their "fine" protects them from thousands of lawsuits from the people who were actually harmed. What a scam!
Law enforcement has access to your Ring videos. They don't need a warrant as the company has been happy to cooperate with them.
Amazon is worth $1.24 trillion. Thirty million is like paying 24 cents out of $10,000
So is everyone supposed to get a check in the mail.
LOL! Yes, people have these… if they're fools. Understand something. Once you connect any gadget, any item to the internet… it is vulnerable to unauthorized access. This includes smart houses, Alexa, Ring. Because many of these are controlled through apps on your phone. Bingo!– there's your vulnerability. There's the access point.
How many scams do people have to experience to understand none of these things is impervious to some hacker's bot gaining access? I worked in security on the internet for five years and knew many others who had done longer than me. I know how these people think. And they don't care about anything besides getting in.
And as for trusting Amazon. They made no mention (at least in this report) of what they plan to do to prevent these breaches from ever happening again. Why am I not surprised?
Wow everyone is going to get like 2 different checks for 60 cents in the mail.
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And none of the actual people whose rights have been violated will get crap. Sounds like only Ring and the lawyers win here.
So… voluntarily putting your entire life on social media is okay, but it's not okay for amazon to have access to the camera and recording devices you voluntarily put in your home? Checks out.
Why are you buying this product in first place. You know they recording you
How do I make a claim?
I mean what do users expect ๐
How boring must life be that someone sits in front of a computer screen to look at people at or in their homes 9,000 miles away?
Bla bla bla, what a surprise ๐ฎ ๐
I only trust apple.
FTC gets the money but none of the victims do.
This is hilarious. Literally like 30 cents to a company worth 1.2 trillion. That's why they keep doing stuff like this. Nothing is going to happen.
It sucks that some people get away with something serious because they can simply pay the fine ๐คทโโ๏ธ
they can mine people's data and sell it for billions to corporations and got 30M fine? worth it.
If Amazon settled – it's not an alleged violation, then Amazon settled because they committed a violation.
Jeff Bezos: Starts wiping away tears with billion dollar bills*
That settlement is nothing to them. Absolutely nothing.