Reports Suggest Ring Allowed Employees Unfettered Access to Customer Camera Feeds

This is all innocent to start with - like FaceBook, Gmail, etc.

 

Not related to this story, but I've owned a Ring since the very early days of the company. 100% of the credentials sent from the camera to the server are sent plaintext HTTP :/

It sucks when you see behind the curtain on the products you like.

 

This reminds me of the events from the video game Watch Dogs.

 

Should I be surprised? Probably not. Seems like People who has "Ring" should build a "Wall" in front of their door to protect their "privacy". OOPS

 

I always try to limit the apps I download to my phone for this reason. Sometimes, you can't avoid it.

It's Amazon though. Are we surprised?

Look at their leader!

 

I own 6 ring cameras around the house lmao... it bothers me but it doesn’t.

I erase video every morning not sure if they still have access to those erased videos or can’t they just remotely key into the live cameras ?

 

Everyone once in a while I start to think cameras at the house would be great. Then I read a story like this.

So....I'm good.

 

real "Russian" collusion... by Amazon LOL

 

Again, wtf do you want cameras run by a company known to not give a **** about privacy all over your house?

 

This gets right to the heart of how the competition between the “digital assistants” will play out. Siri, with Apple’s constraints on privacy, will have less useful examples and less specific context for learning. The others will gain useful experience faster because there appear to be few real limits to what they are prepared to allow. That’s the dispassionate and objective view of machine learning.

In the real world this sort of intrusion, into personal privacy, is absolutely intolerable. If companies don’t have the good sense and respectfulness to take more care than this, then regulation and penalty must surely follow.

One wonders if Apple has some sort of secret investigative team that exposes this stuff, and other misbehaviour such as that by Qualcomm. If they don’t, then they ought to. This sort of news is pure gold for Apple, and it’s user-oriented approach.

 

What a joke. Hopefully Nest doesn't get shown to be doing stuff like this. I love my Nest Hello and Nest Cams.

 

doesnt surprise me. i use arlo cameras around my main mansion in the hills. **** amazon.

 

The other day I was outside my front door talking to a friend about saving money on car insurance. This was all done in front of my Ring.

Then 15 minutes later I sit down on the couch...pull up Macrumors... and there sits an ad from Geico.

 

Brilliant idea. Ring employees can look around inside your house, watch what you do/use and then order you stuff they think would be useful from Amazon.

 

I just assumed this was happening from the beginning. This isn't real new is it?

 

Maybe Jeff was developing a way to keep tabs on Mrs. Bezos.

 

But is it GDPR-friendly?

 

I got a cool idea. Get a replicate of the Enterprise bridge and a Star Trek uniform and put the Ring cameras all over the bridge. Walk around and act in a role that you have gone back in time and you are observing the past in the year 2019 on life on Earth before World War III. Pretend you are from the 23rd century. Have fun and maybe this information will get out and people will think it is real from Amazon and the NSA.

 

I say they use it as a selling point for exhibitionists!

 

This is why I run my own private cloud. Synology running Surveillance Station and the only way to access is to VPN in and connect.

Anything that sends your videos to a cloud means people can view everything going on, who knows how many employees do this for kicks etc.

 

Like Alexa, I'll add this to a list of things I don't want in my house.

 

That's how I use mine. Synology Surveillance is great product.

 

Guess I should stop walking around naked on my front porch where my ring doorbell might see me.

 

Go with private NAS. I run Synology NAS with no outside connection of my network. I can VPN into my network and watch video feed. I still get alerts pushed when something come in camera and even have ability to talk through it.