"Ring faces class action lawsuit over facial biometric collection", 4 June 2026

Doorbell giant Ring, an Amazon company, now faces a proposed class-action lawsuit in the US over its "Familiar Faces" feature, which uses AI to identify and label people to arrive at the door.

The lawsuit, filed by a Virginia resident, accuses the company of collecting and storing biometric information about him without his consent when he visited friends' and relatives' homes.

According to the complaint, the technology collects and stores facial biometrics from anyone who appears within the camera's field of view – regardless of whether they're visiting the house or not.

Charles Sigwalt, the Virginia resident behind the class-action complaint, noted that Ring's system creates and stores so-called faceprints from anybody who comes with reach of a supported camera.

The complaint is seeking at least $5 million in damages, but this figure could rise if a larger class of affected individuals gets approved.

In the complaint, the plaintiff concludes that Ring has created a "profound privacy failure for millions of people who are now being tracked by Amazon."