$5.6 Million in Refunds Sent to Ring Customers, Settling Unauthorized Access and Privacy Violations (apnews.com) 10
America's Federal Trade Commission "is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers," reports the Associated Press, "as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access."
In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its employees and contractors to access customers' private videos. Ring allegedly used such footage to train algorithms without consent, among other purposes. Ring was also charged with failing to implement key security protections, which enabled hackers to take control of customers' accounts, cameras and videos. This led to "egregious violations of users' privacy," the FTC noted.
The resulting settlement required Ring to delete content that was found to be unlawfully obtained, establish stronger security protections and pay a hefty fine. The FTC says that it's now using much of that money to refund eligible Ring customers.
According to their announcement Tuesday, the FTC is now sending 117,044 PayPal payments to affected consumers...
The resulting settlement required Ring to delete content that was found to be unlawfully obtained, establish stronger security protections and pay a hefty fine. The FTC says that it's now using much of that money to refund eligible Ring customers.
According to their announcement Tuesday, the FTC is now sending 117,044 PayPal payments to affected consumers...
Dupe from 14 hours ago (Score:2)
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Maybe the editors should use a Ring camera to watch Slashdot since all else seems to fail so far.
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It even references the same apnews article, although this link has a heap of automatically generated garbage tacked onto the end for identification purposes.
Re: Dupe from 14 hours ago (Score:2)
$11.2 million and counting! /. keeps posting this, it'll be better than winning the lottery!
PayPal? (Score:2)
How did PayPal get involved with this? I want nothing to do with that company, but that is the only way people can get paid? So PayPal can try to hoodwink them all into signing up for a PayPal account.
WTF?
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2. A large percentage of people don't have a PayPal account and want nothing to do with them
3. PROFIT!!
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Likely because it's the easiest way to pay it out. Chances are they looked at the accounts and probably found they could refund most people through Paypal as that was how they paid for the service.
If you don't want Paypal, they do offer other options, including a cheque sent through the mail.
Better than some o