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U.S. NEWS Friday 26 april 2024
Wild horses to remain in North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt

National Park, lawmaker says

By JACK DURA the 1880s in what was then
Associated Press Dakota Territory.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — “People love horses,” Ho-
Wild horses will stay in North even said. “And where do
Dakota’s Theodore Roos- you go to see wild horses?
evelt National Park amid I mean, it’s not like an easy
fears from advocates that thing to do, and most peo-
park officials would remove ple don’t have horses, and
the beloved animals from they love the idea of wild
the rugged badlands land- horses. They see it as part of
scape, a key lawmaker our heritage in America.”
said Thursday. Earlier Thursday, Hoeven’s
Republican U.S. Sen. John office said in a statement
Hoeven said he has se- the decision “will allow for
cured a commitment from a healthy herd of wild hors-
the National Park Service to es to be maintained at the
maintain wild horses in the park, managed in a way
park, though the number to support genetic diver-
remains to be determined. sity among the herd and
Roughly 200 horses now preserve the park’s natural
roam the park. resources.”
Hoeven said the Park Ser- The horses roam the park’s
vice will abandon its pro- South Unit near the West-
posed removal of the hors- ern tourist town of Medora.
es under an environmental In 2022, park officials be-
review process begun in Wild horses stand in a group along a hiking trail in Theodore Roosevelt National Park on Saturday, gan the process of craft-
2022 and will continue to Oct. 21, 2023, near Medora, N.D. Associated Press ing a “livestock plan” for
operate under an existing the horses as well as about
1978 environmental assess- told The Associated Press. public comment received Park visitors, much to their nine longhorn cattle in the
ment that calls for a reduc- There is no timeline on that, during the (environmental delight, often encounter park’s North Unit near Wat-
tion in their numbers. he said. assessment) process.” In a the horses while driving or ford City. Park officials have
“They’ve committed to me In a statement, the park text message, park officials hiking in the rolling, colorful said that process aligned
that we will have a thought- said its decision to termi- acknowledged an email badlands where a young, with policies to remove
ful and inclusive discussion nate the review “was made seeking comment but future President Theodore non-native species when
on how many horses they after careful consideration didn’t immediately provide Roosevelt hunted and en- they pose a potential risk to
keep in the park,” Hoeven of the information and one. gaged in cattle ranching in resources.q

FTC sends $5.6 million in refunds to Ring customers as part of video

privacy settlement

By W. GRANTHAM-PHILIPS control of customers’ ac- within 30 days, according
AP Business Writer counts, cameras and vid- to the FTC which added
NEW YORK (AP) — The Fed- eos. This led to “egregious that consumers can con-
eral Trade Commission is violations of users’ privacy,” tact this case’s refund ad-
sending more than $5.6 mil- the FTC noted. ministrator, Rust Consulting,
lion in refunds to consum- The resulting settlement re- or visit the FTC’s FAQ page
ers as part of a settlement quired Ring to delete con- on refunds for more infor-
with Amazon-owned Ring, tent that was found to be mation about the process.
which was charged with unlawfully obtained, estab- In a statement sent to The
failing to protect private lish stronger security protec- Associated Press, Ring said
video footage from outside tions and pay a hefty fine. that bad actors took emails
access. The FTC says that it’s now and passwords that were
In a 2023 complaint, the using much of that money “stolen from other com-
FTC accused the doorbell to refund eligible Ring cus- panies to unlawfully log
camera and home security tomers. into Ring accounts of cer-
provider of allowing its em- According to a Tuesday tain customers” who used
ployees and contractors to notice, the FTC is sending the same credentials on
access customers’ private 117,044 PayPal payments multiple sites back in 2019 A person pushes the doorbell on his Ring doorbell camera, July
videos. to impacted consumers adding that the company 16, 2019, at his home in Wolcott, Conn.
Ring allegedly used such who had certain types of promptly addressed this Associated Press
footage to train algorithms Ring devices including in- by notifying those it discov- address the FTC’s allega- would stop allowing police
without consent, among door cameras during the ered to be “exposed in a tions of employees and departments to request
other purposes. timeframes that the regu- third-party, non-Ring inci- contractors unlawfully ac- doorbell camera footage
Ring was also charged with lators allege unauthorized dent” and taking action cessing footage. from users, marking an
failing to implement key access took place. to protect impacted ac- Earlier this year, the Califor- end to a feature that had
security protections, which Eligible customers will need counts. nia-based company sepa- drawn criticism from priva-
enabled hackers to take to redeem these payments Ring did not immediately rately announced that it cy advocates.q