I find it very disturbing that Ring will grant access to our personal videos (the ones we capture inside and outside of our property) to external companies and law enforcement. The videos that are captured on OUR ring devices our own property. They are not public domain.  They are not to be shared with any 3rd parties without our expressed written consent. Ring has opted to partner with Flock to share our personal videos. Ring also has plans on running our personal videos through their AI systems to create searchable tags in the name of helping pet owners recover their lost pets. It's lost pets today, tomorrow it will be lost people, next week it will be facial recognition to aid law enforcement to track wanted individuals.

When exactly did our privacy end?

I understand that Ring, when presented with a valid, signed, judicial warrant, has to legally release specific cloud stored videos.

Ring can step up (like Apple has) and provide encrypted cloud storage that only the subscriber can de-encrypt with there own private key. Ring can further step up and create a  Ring home hub for locally archiving customer-owned videos and stop storing customer-owned videos in the cloud. If Ring doesn't have our personal videos, they cannot be compelled to violate our privacy and share them with external entities. However that will destroy Ring's business model almost completely. 

I know we (We being Ring subscribers) are not the customer any longer. We are the now the product that Ring is selling. We willingly bought video recording devices. We willingly installed video recording devices in our PRIVATE homes. We willingly believed the videos would be kept private. However they are no longer private. Ring has publically proven their intent to monetize our private videos. They are being bought and sold to whoever has the money. Shame on Ring. 

 

 

 

    

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