Amazon to Pay $5.8 Million for Spying on Customers Through Their Ring Cameras

Amazon agreed to pay a $5.8 million settlement after the Federal Trade Commission found it was illegally spying on customers and failed to stop hackers from taking control of users' Ring cameras. Employees, contractors, and hackers all illegally watched videos of Ring customers. The FTC found that one Ring employee had viewed thousands of videos of female customers in their bedrooms and bathrooms over several months. The employee in question was only stopped when another employee discovered what they had been doing.