The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access.

Ring doorbell cameras are no longer allowing police to access video from users.

Amazon-owned Ring will stop allowing police departments to request doorbell camera footage from users.

Amazon has agreed to pay a $25 million civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations it violated a child privacy law and deceived parents by keeping for years kids’ voice and location data recorded by its Alexa voice assistant.

In a story published July 13, 2022, The Associated Press reported that the non-profit digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation said the Los Angeles Police Department requested Ring footage of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

In the midst of the chaos of a Chicago-area parade massacre, a woman walked up to Greg Ring and handed him a 2-year-old boy, covered in blood.

A new partnership with the Wytheville police department is looking to reduce crime ahead of the holidays.

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CLEVELAND – A customer left a $3,000 tip for a single beer as a restaurant voluntarily closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The man walked in Sunday, ordered the beer and asked for the check, which came to $7.02, Nighttown owner Brendan Ring wrote on Facebook. Ring said the man wished him well and told him to share the tip with the four employees who were working brunch service. As the man walked out, Ring wrote, he looked down at the tip and “realized he left a whopping $3,000.”“I ran after him and he said no mistake we will see you when you reopen!”Ring said he would not post the customer's name because he thinks the man wouldn't want that. The owner said he and his serving staff were “humbly grateful for this incredibly kind and grand gesture.”

When coastal erosion was threatening an old lighthouse in Denmark, authorities had a brilliant idea: move it some 80 meters (263 feet) away from the North Sea. (CNN) - When coastal erosion was threatening an old lighthouse in Denmark, authorities had a brilliant idea: move it some 80 meters (263 feet) away from the North Sea. When it was built in 1899, the lighthouse stood about 200 meters from the coast, Ring said. With the coast in front of the lighthouse eroding by around two meters every year, the municipality had estimated it could only remain where it was for another one or two years. But if you're not currently in Denmark, you can still watch the livestream of the relocation here.

1 industry and we want to continue to grow agriculture," Bettina Ring, Virginia secretary of agriculture and forestry, said. The Commonwealth is recognizing Lynchburg City Schools and local farmers new collaboration efforts. Ring said the commonwealth recently set a program goal to have $22 million worth of local products in schools across Virginia by 2022. And there are so many wonderful farmers across the state and opportunities and schools that are stepping up," Ring said. Beth Morris, the director of school nutrition said students are making good use of the local milk than they did the carton milk.

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(CNN) - A neighbor's doorbell camera caught a man assaulting and dragging his ex-girlfriend, who was later found being held against her will in a Southern California home, police said. The video is stamped with the logo of Ring, the Amazon-owned company that works with more than 400 police departments nationwide, including Arcadia's. While Ring says its police partnerships make people safer, privacy advocates warn they could create a 24/7 surveillance environment. "I thought she was going to die," Arcadia neighbor Tammy Raycraft told KCAL, adding that she saw the man stomping on the woman. "Investigation also revealed that the female victim had been held against her will inside the residence since late (Sunday) evening."

Jason SawyerMan watches on Ring as home destroyed - Jason Sawyer and his wife were watching a live camera feed of Hurricane Dorian lashing North Carolina's Emerald Isle, where they have a home, when the connection went offline. So the man decided to check his Ring doorbell camera. "The doorbell camera too was offline and then we received reports of a tornado in the area," Sawyer told CNN. Ring footage shows rising, howling wind from the tornado, one of the 24 spawned from Hurricane Dorian in parts of the Carolinas, lifting their home before the connection cuts out. The couple, who were home in Raeford during the passage of Hurricane Dorian, immediately knew their Emerald Isle property was destroyed.

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(CNN) - The video doorbell company Ring is working with more than 400 US police departments to streamline their access to user videos, the company announced on Wednesday. "When communities and law enforcement work together, safer neighborhoods can become a reality," Ring says in an FAQ about its program. If police use the portal to request video footage from Ring users in a certain area, Ring will email the selected users, the company says. Ring users can choose to share all videos, review the videos, decline the request or unsubscribe from such emails. Ring emphasized that the Neighbors Portal used by police is designed to protect user privacy.