Global eCommerce giant Amazon is facing a $5 million class action lawsuit over its Ring doorbell’s artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition feature.
Filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, the litigation alleges that Amazon.com and its subsidiary Ring LLC violated privacy rights when the Ring security camera captured images of people’s faces without their knowledge or consent.
An Amazon spokesperson told The Epoch Times that the company has no comment on the lawsuit.
According to the complaint, Ring introduced the “Familiar Faces” feature for its security cameras in December 2025. The feature uses AI facial recognition technology to scan the faces of all guests and those passing by the home before it categorizes them as “familiar” or “unknown.” It then collects a “face print” of each person to re-identify them for future visits….