Amazon’s Ring doorbell was used to spy on customers

A former employee of Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera unit spied on female customers for months in 2017 with cameras placed in bedrooms and bathrooms, the Federal Trade Commission said in a court filing on Wednesday when it announced a $5.8m settlement with the company over privacy violations. Amazon also agreed to pay $25m to settle allegations it violated children’s privacy rights when it failed to delete Alexa recordings at the request of parents and kept them longer than necessary, according to a court filing in federal court in Seattle that outlined a separate settlement.

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spy：间谍；侦探；vt. 侦查，发现

court：法院

filing：文件

settlement：处理，解决

violation：违反（violate 违反，亵渎）

allegation：主张，断言，宣告

allege：宣称，主张，提出，断言

outline：大纲；概要；vt 概述

Seattle：西雅图

outlined a separate settlement：概述了一份单独的解决方案