EFF Says Ring Doorbell Comes With Third-Party Trackers

[engine]

According to a survey by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Ring doorbells come with third-party trackers extracting personally identifiable information.

Four main analytics and marketing companies were discovered to be receiving information such as the names, private IP addresses, mobile network carriers, persistent identifiers, and sensor data on the devices of paying customers.

Included in this is Facebook.

If Ring customers knew this it might make them think differently, or they may not care. If they don't care it'll just make it easier for this kind of tracking to continue.

[eff.org...]

[not2easy]

This shouldn't be news in 2020 but it is good to know that EFF is helping to get the word out. It's been a known fact and published in multiple sources since at least a year ago. See [webmasterworld.com...] - which is not the only thread here on the topic.

People who use these things without an interest in understanding how they can be abused aren't likely to read what's been published anywhere. Not interesting enough. Until it is. :(

[tangor]

What? Are there still people out there who don't know that this stuff does this stuff?

I guess there are. (sigh)

[blend27]

Wheeeaaaalllll, Ma Bell is better than that..|

After a recent storm(sand storm then lots of rain) who ever rings the bell for the first level flats is also sounding the RING-RING at the 3rd level flats. There were 3 repair attempts so far and nara.

There is an old angry lady(with a broom) that takes turns with another old man(with rolled up newspaper, at least 2 weeks old) to figure out what is when without chasing mailman away.

At the latest coop meeting, All Together Now!(yes we sing that song every time we get a chance), there was a suggestion to cut a hole in a main entrance gate and manually ask all Door Bell Ringers - 'WAAAASAAaaaAAP?!', didnt pass... thru the gate...

Some suggested tying neighborhood goat affront and that was also voted down 53 to 47, with no real reason except some suggesting there might be a time someone will have its way with poor animal by feeding it Giga-Bites of hey so it would not sound an alarm anyway.

Suspense...

[tangor]

Worthy of a Punziler Prize!

Made my day...

[blend27]

But wait... there is more...

So the one with a broom after all said NOTHING when confronted by the Goat`s [merriam-webster.com...] that came to the party for no particular reason at the time... they were all lost... could not fit on a broom to do the thingy..

..and then, and only then, locals, defending the dude with News-PEPA staged the unthinkable.

Suspense...

FOO is all that!

p.s.: ¿Por qué la secuencia de comandos jquery.min.js llama dos veces en esta página?

[blend27]

On a somber note I spoke with one of Net Admins recently and she mentioned that as of December 1st all traffic to '*.branch.io' was already knee-capped at router/firewall level.

[engine]

It seems there's now a two-factor verification now required on these doorbells for user account login.
It'll also "pause" data-sharing with third party businesses: Note, only pause, not stop.

Users will need to enter a password and unique six-digit code when they first log in to view their security footage or access the Neighbors app.

[bbc.co.uk...]

[RhinoFish]

So two factor authenticate to see your own data if you bought and own the device, but 3rd parties can buy your data without your knowledge?

I've loved Ring since the beginning, but if this news is true and Ring knowingly sold us out, I hope their biz literally burns to the ground (with nobody injured in the fire). And, I wish a judge would require these executives, if guilty, to put cameras in every room of their houses for the next 20 years, and wire the cameras to multiple TVs in the mall and online.