Ring gets buzzed by class action for collecting visitors' faces without consent

Perhaps you stopped by a friend's house and rang their Ring doorbell. Or maybe you walked past a neighbor's front door on your way somewhere else. According to a new class action lawsuit, Ring's Familiar Faces feature may have captured your face and generated facial-recognition data from it without your knowledge. A Virginia man is now suing Amazon and its home security subsidiary, alleging violations of state laws. Charles Sigwalt claims that Ring's Familiar Faces, an AI-powered facial-recognit