There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

I'm here with my producer, Mike. Hey, Mike.

Hey, Bridget.

How about the smoke, right?

It's really something here in D.C.

It's like the only thing anybody's been able to talk about for days.

I have not left my house in 48 hours, and here's what you might have missed this week on the internet.

You know that song that goes,

I always feel like somebody's watching me?

Well, if you have a ring camera that somebody watching might be an Amazon employee.

And that's because before 2017, Amazon employees could just access whoever's ring camera they wanted.

And some of them did.

This is according to a court filing from the Federal Trade Commission,

when it announced a $5.8 million settlement with Amazon over privacy violations.

So this whole thing is about as creepy as you would expect.

It sounds like there was just overbroad access given to employees

and also contractors to customers'

Ring footage, and that there might have been just a generally lax attitude around accessing that footage at Amazon.

According to the filing, Ring gave every employee full access to every customer video before 2017

and failed to patch bugs in the system that allowed hackers to access cameras

and scare consumers. Now, I gotta say, this was not just like a one-time thing. It sounds like a

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