Amazon sued over Ring facial recognition, plaintiffs seeking $5M

Source: USA Today

Amazon sued over Ring facial recognition, plaintiffs seeking $5M

Michelle Del Rey
USA TODAY
June 4, 2026, 5:18 p.m. ET

Amazon is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging its Ring doorbell cameras illegally collected people’s facial data without their consent.

The complaint, filed June 1 in federal court in Washington state, alleges Ring’s “Familiar Faces” feature uses facial recognition technology to scan, store and classify visitors, including passersby, raising concerns about biometric privacy and transparency.

Ring introduced the feature in the United States in December 2025, allowing users to receive personalized alerts that identify people at their door. But the lawsuit argues the technology scans anyone captured on camera, not just known visitors, converting faces into unique biometric identifiers, or “faceprints” for up to six months.

Those identifiers can then be used to recognize people when they appear again, the complaint says, with the data stored in Amazon’s cloud systems.

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