Amazon finally admits giving cops Ring doorbell data without user consent | Ars Technica
11 times in 2022.
There are higher security settings that Ring users can change on their devices to stop recording audio and start using end-to-end encryption for data storage, though. By changing these settings, users can ensure that no third parties (like Ring or the police) can access their recordings and know they're not recording any protected free speech that happens within 30 feet of their front doors.
But people don't change settings they don't have to, and so this is out there. And it will get worse.
Say something that the Thought Police think is Hate Speech? Ring is recording audio by default.
People apparently don't mind living in a panoptican.
"Ring is recording audio by default." Many of our neighbors have it and I bet they have no idea. But I do have a question, if RING is recording audio by default, why, when a RING video of a crime or porch pirate hit the web why is there no audio, unless the person has disabled the audio feature. Am I missing something here, Deb?
ReplyDeleteI think it depends on the version of the doorbell camera
DeleteI have seen videos - not of porch pirates - with audio from Ring (or other) doorbell cameras. Active Self Protection has a few videos around Ring capturing self-defense.
thank you :)
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