On Monday, the doorbell overlords got slapped with a class-action lawsuit in Seattle federal court, filed by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt. The complaint? Ring’s “Familiar Faces” feature is cheerfully building a biometric database of random passersby without their permission.
Announced last September amid immediate side-eye from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), the feature launched anyway in December. Here’s the pitch: Opt-in AI that lets you tag your family, the mail carrier, or that nosy neighbor so your doorbell can chirp helpful alerts like “Dad’s here!” instead of the vague “Some rando is breathing on your porch.” Sounds cozy, right? Except the camera has to scan everyone who wanders into frame to figure out who’s “familiar.”
Amazon’s Ring is facing a new privacy lawsuit over facial recognition.
A Virginia resident sued Amazon in federal court, alleging Ring’s “Familiar Faces” feature collects and stores facial data from passersby without consent.
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Privacy advocates pointed out the obvious: the opt-in only applies to the owner. The delivery guy, the jogger, the Jehovah’s Witness, and millions of other innocent sidewalk strollers get zero say while their faces get turned into little encrypted math problems. The lawsuit drives this home: “Millions of other Americans passed by a Ring security camera and unknowingly had their facial recognition information collected.”
Amazon, with the weary tone of a teenager promising “this time it’ll be different,” insists the data is encrypted, never shared, and unidentified faces are auto-deleted after 30 days. Sure, Jan. That’s what they all say until the next breach headline drops.
This isn’t Ring’s first privacy rodeo. In 2023, they settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after it came out that basically any employee or contractor could peek at your home videos like it was Netflix. One charming staffer reportedly spent months ogling footage from women’s bedrooms and bathrooms. Every worker had blanket access, even when they had no business looking. Hackers also had a field day because security was apparently an afterthought.
Ring has long played footsie with law enforcement too, once making it easy for police to request user footage without warrants. And remember that Super Bowl ad hyping “Search Party,” the AI tool for finding lost pets using Ring footage? It triggered such an uproar that Ring quickly nixed a planned partnership with Flock Safety—a company whose cameras and license-plate readers have been cozy with police and federal agencies. The integration never launched, but the optics were… not great.
So here we are: another day, another lawsuit reminding us that convenience is just surveillance with better marketing. Ring wants to play neighborhood watch with your face data while swearing it’s all very responsible and encrypted. Bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off in court.
Sgt Pat
Reuters: Amazon was sued on Monday by a Virginia resident over what he said were privacy violations after the company’s Ring doorbell cameras at friends and family members’ homes collected and stored images of his face using facial recognition software. – Article
Daily Caller: Amazon‘s Ring Doorbell Stored Strangers’ Faces, New Lawsuit Claims – Article
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