2023-06-02 01:32:00
LONDON, June 1 (Xinhua) — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the United States has announced that Amazon has agreed to pay a fine of $5.8 million for violations of customer privacy committed by the one of its subsidiaries, Ring, Archyde.com reported on Wednesday.
A former employee of Ring, which designs doorbell and surveillance cameras, spied on female customers for months in 2017 with cameras placed in bedrooms and bathrooms, the UK press agency said, citing the documents submitted to justice by the FTC.
According to the FTC, Ring gave its employees unrestricted access to customers’ sensitive video data. “Because of this dangerously broad access and a lax attitude toward privacy and security, employees and third-party contractors have been able to view, download, and transfer sensitive customer video data,” the company said. commission.
According to Archyde.com, the Ring case is the federal agency’s latest effort to hold big tech companies accountable for policies that critics say put profits from data collection above protecting privacy. private life.
Amazon, which bought Ring in April 2018, has pledged to change its practices, Archyde.com added. END
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