Employee-Misconduct

FTC fines Ring $5.8 million for employees' illegal surveillance of customers' private videos

2023-05-31 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

The Federal Trade Commission announced a $5.8 million settlement with Ring after finding the company compromised customers’ privacy by allowing employees and contractors to access private videos and failing to implement basic security protections that enabled hackers to take control of …

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The Intercept reveals Ring employees in Ukraine had unfettered access to customer video feeds

2019-01-10 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

The Intercept published an investigation on January 10, 2019 revealing that beginning in 2016, Ring provided its Ukraine-based research and development team with virtually unfettered access to a folder on Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service containing every video created by every Ring camera …

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