A doorbell company owned by Amazon wants to start producing “crime news” and it’ll definitely end well
Because what good is a panopticon if you can’t generate some clicks?

With "Ring" Amazon manufactures intercoms with video function. So far, so good. Now the company wants to turn the recorded material directly and indirectly into money and is setting up its own media department. This department will probably process the most exciting recordings in the well-known reality TV style and bring them to the people with a "journalistic" touch. Practical side effect: Ring has a suitable offer for those who are afraid of the videos.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/a-doorbell-company-owned-by-amazon-wants-to-start-producing-crime-news-and-itll-definitely-end-well/

The Doorbell Company That’s Selling Fear: Amazon-owned Ring is hiring editors to push local crime news to its users
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/amazon-owned-ring-wants-report-crime-news/588394/


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People Can't Vacuum Or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon's Cloud Servers Are Down

via www.gizmodo.com.au


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Building a DIY Smart Doorbell
https://buzzert.net/posts/2021-05-09-doorbell

The Ring Doorbell, which is now owned by advertising megacorp Amazon, suffers from all of the same privacy problems described in my post about the Nest thermostat, but even worse. Like the Nest thermostat, the client software is a total “race to the bottom” one-size-fits-all garbage iOS app that not only looks bad, but is full of bugs. Also like the Nest, all of your data is hosted in “the cloud”, and a monthly ransom is required before you (“the customer”) are actually allowed to access it. Worse than the Nest, however, is the fact that the Ring doorbell actually has a camera and microphone built-in, so video and audio feeds are also held for ransom in “the cloud”, and are shared with any interested party, sometimes even without your permission.

> Just like many other Internet of Things products, the Ring has also been subject to multiple disastrous data breaches, meaning besides law enforcement agencies and advertising partners, many Ring customers’ private data is now also in the hands of malicious hackers, who may in the future offer ransoms that are much harder to refuse than the one offered by Amazon.

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Build all the small stuffs yourself, as much as you can. Another reason to learn DIY, even though off the shelf solutions exist.

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