On Sept. 30, Amazon announced new Ring security cameras and AI features at an event in New York City. Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that one of those AI features, a tool called Familiar Faces, "has the potential to violate the privacy rights of millions of people and could result in Amazon breaking state biometric privacy laws."

Mashable attended the Sept. 30 event, where Ring founder and leader Jamie Siminoff provided an overview of the Ring product line's new AI feature set. Siminoff only recently returned to Ring, and he has made a focus on AI one of his top priorities.

He's also renewed Ring's work with law enforcement , a source of controversy in the past, after the company backed away from this approach in recent years. Ring was founded by Siminoff in 2013, and t

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