Lawsuit
FTC: Ring spied on customers
2023The FTC found Ring let employees and contractors watch customers' private videos and failed to secure them, resulting in a $5.8M settlement.
Individual
MacKenzie Scott
Co-founder
Est. net worth: $32B
Co-founded Amazon in 1994 with then-husband Jeff Bezos and was one of the company's first employees, working on the company name, the business plan, the accounts, and shipping the first orders. Now a novelist and philanthropist, she received roughly a 4% Amazon stake in the 2019 divorce and has given away over $26B.
On the record
Companies
Incidents in their orbit
Investigation
2,000+ police footage partnerships
2021Ring built partnerships with thousands of police and fire agencies to request residents' doorbell footage, turning private homes into a distributed surveillance network.
Investigation
Falsely matched 28 members of Congress
2018The ACLU showed Amazon's Rekognition falsely matched 28 members of Congress to mugshots — disproportionately people of color — while Amazon marketed it to police.
Ban / Halt
Police-use moratorium
2020Amid bias findings and protests, Amazon paused police use of Rekognition — a moratorium it later extended indefinitely.
- ↳Amazon pauses police use of Rekognition — Reuters, 2020