Ring Loses Bid to Dismiss Biometric Claims Over Doorbell Cameras

Ring LLC must face allegations that it used its doorbell cameras to record passersby and collect their biometric data without their consent, after a federal judge in Seattle ruled that the court couldn’t yet determine whether Ring had the capacity to identify specific individuals.

Michelle Wise, seeking to represent a class of people who don’t own Ring cameras but claim that their faces have been recorded, sued under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. Wise said that Ring didn’t obtain consent before collecting facial biometrics from passersby, nor did it create a publicly available data retention and destruction schedule, as required ...