According to a report on the BBC, Amazon's Ring doorbell records every motion down to the millisecond. At first that might seem irrelevant, especially if you don't have one of these doorbells, but you may be impacted of you walk past one.
Also, the data collected, once analysed, paints a picture that might be used to profile the individuals that believe the doorbell is there for their own security.
It is scary how much information you can gather from seemingly innocent data. I have a few lights around my house which switch on whenever motion is detected. I log my electricity usage for the whole house and the moments the lights switch on are easy to spot. It has enabled me to track the behavior of the neighbor's cat at night in detail and which path it prefers to take.
And that is just the behavior of a cat with data much less detailed than what the Ring doorbell apparently is logging.
RhinoFish
3:44 pm on Mar 13, 2020 (gmt 0)
Ring has been flailing lately, they need a privacy overhaul! [thehill.com...]
But this news from EFF, really chaps my behind (I own many Ring devices) and cannot believe they betrayed us so callously! [eff.org...]
I wish their executives would be forced to have cameras in every room they live and work in, for a period of 7 years, you know, to teach them a lesson.
