DJI has filed two patent lawsuits against Arashi Vision Inc., which does business as Insta360, regarding its new Luna gimbal camera. One lawsuit alleges two violations of design patents while the other alleges four utility patent violations.
This morning, DJI filed two lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Insta360, asserting it violated both design and utility patents. Insta360 is preparing its defense.
Insta360 has countersued DJI for what it asserts are violations of five utility patents covering technology used in gimbal and 360-degree cameras. Insta360 claims these technologies are incorporated into several major DJI products, including the Osmo Pocket, Ronin/RS, Osmo Mobile, and Osmo 360.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 — Amazon was sued on Monday by a Virginia resident over what he said were privacy violations after the company’s Ring doorbell cameras at friends and family members’ homes collected and stored images of his face using facial recognition software. The plaintiff, Charles Sigwalt, who is seeking class-action status, sued Amazon in federal court in Seattle alleging a feature known as “Familiar Faces” retains images of passersby without their consent. He is seeking at least US$5 million in damages for the class.
Familiar Faces, which is optional, uses artificial intelligence to identify and remember people so that when they return to a home or a business, notifications can include specific names.
Those affected “did not consent to have their privacy rights violated at the entrance way,” according to the suit. “Millions of other Americans passed by a Ring security camera and unknowingly had their facial recognition information collected.”
Amazon declined to comment.
The suit, which seeks unspecified damages for those impacted, is just the latest in a string of controversies around Amazon’s Ring, the unit that makes the eponymous smart doorbells and security systems. Ring, which Amazon bought in 2018 for US$1 billion (RM3.9 billion), in February faced a backlash over a service that it advertised during the Super Bowl that it said helps people find lost dogs by activating its neighbourhood network of cameras. Users and privacy advocates were concerned the cameras could be deployed to surveil whole neighbourhoods or areas. Following the criticism, Ring in February ended an unrelated partnership with Flock Safety, which deploys license plate readers and cameras for law enforcement use. In 2023, the US Federal Trade Commission reached a US$5.8 million settlement with Ring over privacy allegations that it said included a former employee spying on female customers in their home bedrooms and bathrooms.
The FTC said Ring employees had unrestricted access to customers’ sensitive video data, allowing them and contractors to view and download it. Amazon denied any wrongdoing as part of the settlement. US Democratic Senator Ed Markey alleged in 2022 that Ring violated people’s privacy through its partnerships with law enforcement, allowing them access to some user footage without proper consent. In the suit filed on Monday, Sigwalt said Amazon’s “conduct here represents a profound privacy failure for millions of people who are now being tracked by Amazon.” — Reuters
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