Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos(vice.com)
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Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mdvk/ring-fired-employees-abusing-video-data
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This is scapegoating. The employee worked for Amazon. Amazon watched customer video. You shouldn't get to use employees for responsibility laundering. I don't care what your policies are anymore than I care whether any criminal "didn't mean to" hurt someone. Your policies are your internal details. I care about your behavior.
I will never understand how it is that people are OK with installing surveillance equipment in their home that can be accessed by any strangers whatsoever.
Neither will I. Ring, Alexa & friends, "smart" devices made by mega corps, etc will never be welcome in my home. Any home automation will only be done with open-source or home-brew solutions.
I am in the same camp but we're assuming that the capabilities already present in our phones/laptops/TVs are turned off and stay that way.
Unfortunately, you are absolutely correct. Like most I have a smartphone (Android), use Chrome (technically chromium but close enough), and have a device or two infected with Windows 10.
I do take measures to reduce the outflow of my personal data but with no real practical alternatives in some cases, I can only rely on blending into the background noise and avoiding flagrantly awful and thinly-veiled surveillance devices.
Per the article sounds like Ring took steps to tighten access in response to these reports. I don’t really see a problem with this response. I don’t own any Ring products but personally I think it is reasonable to expect that someone at Ring would have some degree of access to customer content, and I think that it is a reasonable trade off in order to have the benefits of connected cameras, automatic backups, and their Neighbors feature.