Ring Camera Owners Will Receive $5.6 Million in Payments After FTC-Amazon Settlement. Here's How Many Customers Are Eligible — And How They'll Get the Cash.

If Amazon employees aliases hackers accessed individual footage from your Ring camera without your consent, you mightiness beryllium entitled to a hefty payout.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is issuing $5.6 cardinal successful refunds to definite Ring customers aft it recovered that labor and contractors were unlawfully accessing backstage video contented to usage for algorithm training and different soul purposes.

Amazon-owned Ring was besides accused of not implementing due information protections to forestall hackers from accessing users' accounts and footage without their consent.

"These practices led to egregious violations of users' privacy," nan FTC said successful Thursday's notice.

In June 2023, Amazon settled 2 privacy-related suits pinch nan FTC, 1 related to Ring and 1 stating that it violated nan Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule) pinch its Alexa sound assistant. Amazon was ordered to salary much than $30 cardinal successful civilian penalties and customer refunds.

"While we disagree pinch nan FTC's claims regarding some Alexa and Ring, and contradict violating nan law, these settlements put these matters down us," Amazon said successful a connection to Entrepreneur at nan time.

The FTC said it will disagreement nan $5.6 cardinal into astir 117,044 PayPal payments to customers who owned definite types of Ring devices during nan alleged unauthorized use. Affected customers must redeem their PayPal payments wrong 30 days.

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Amazon did not rumor a connection connected this week's matter but told the Associated Press that affected customers were notified if their information had been "exposed successful a third-party, non-Ring incident" by hackers. The institution did not remark connected nan allegations of labor and contractors accessing customer data.

Amazon was up complete 71% twelvemonth complete twelvemonth arsenic of Friday afternoon.