Inside Track
Amazon Admits Employees Secretly Watched Ring Camera Customers
In a January 6 letter to U.S. senators, tech behemoth Amazon admitted that it has fired employees discovered to have been spying on customers using the company’s Ring cameras.
Although the Ring cameras were originally marketed as a way to see who’s standing outside the front door before opening it, many users have installed the surveillance equipment inside their houses.
Amazon’s eight-page letter was a response to inquiries made by five U.S. Democratic senators regarding the company’s security policies and findings of the company’s internal audits. In November 2019, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.), and Gary C. Peters (D-Mich.) cosigned the letter looking for answers to questions about stories of privacy breaches being reported in the media.
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