The Walt Disney Company is facing a $5 million class action lawsuit alleging Disneyland and Disney California Adventure failed to properly disclose the use of facial recognition technology at park entrances and collected sensitive biometric data from visitors, including children, without consent. The lawsuit, filed May 15 in federal court... Read More » Amazon Faces Class Action Over Ring Facial Recognition Feature Amazon is facing a class action lawsuit in federal court over claims that its Ring doorbell cameras used facial recognition technology to scan, identify, and store people’s faces without their consent. The complaint was filed on June 1 by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt in federal court in Seattle, where Amazon has one of its headquarters. Sigwalt claims Ring’s “Familiar Faces” feature creates a digital faceprint of visitors who appear in front of enabled cameras, allowing the system to recognize them later without their knowledge or consent. According to the lawsuit, Sigwalt’s facial data was collected while he visited friends and family members who had Ring cameras using the feature. He claims he never bought a Ring device, never agreed to Ring’s terms of service, and never gave Amazon permission to collect or store his biometric information. Amazon acquired Ring in 2018 for about $1 billion. Familiar Faces is an optional Ring feature that provides personalized doorbell alerts. Instead of receiving a generic alert that a person is at the front door, a Ring customer can label frequent visitors and receive a notification identifying a specific person. Ring says users can turn the feature on or off and manage the faces stored in their personal directory. Consent is the central problem raised by the complaint because the person using the Ring camera is not always the person being identified. A homeowner may choose to activate Familiar Faces, but Sigwalt