Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial-recognition feature

Amazon is facing a class action lawsuit over Ring’s Familiar Faces feature.

The suit, filed in Seattle by a Virginia resident, alleges Ring scans and stores bystanders’ faces without consent.

Privacy advocates and lawmakers had already criticized the AI tool for recognizing regular visitors at users’ doors.

The case could set a major precedent for how facial recognition can be used on non-consenting people and increase pressure on Amazon’s privacy practices.