Case Study
Sell Data and Say You Didn’t: How Flo Health Got In Trouble with the FTC
The FTC sued Flo Health—a once-popular women’s health app used for tracking reproductive...+ Read more
The FTC took Amazon Ring to task for compromising people’s privacy by giving employee and contractors unnecessary and unrestricted access to sensitive video information and failing to provide notice or consent for access, and failing to secure its devices from hacks. It was revealed that a single employee had spent several months in 2017 watching thousands of video recordings without consent, including many that occurred in “intimate spaces” of the home. Ring was ordered in 2023 to delete information, models, and algorithms derived from unlawfully viewed videos and implement a privacy and security program with stringent controls.