FTC forces Ring to take privacy seriously

[anigbrowl]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/ftc-forces-ring-take-user-privacy-seriously

[henriquez]

Really, a $5.8 million dollar FTC settlement for a company with the market cap of Amazon, for spying on women in their homes. That’s not “take privacy seriously” level, that’s not even a mosquito bite on their net worth. Amazon was shamefully careless and the U.S. government isn’t even giving them a slap on the wrist. And for EFF to declare this as a victory is laughable. WTF

[autoexec]

"Force" by way of a gentle slap on the wrist and stern words. I'm sure this will work out great for the suckers who bought ring cameras and the rest of us who are being recorded by our neighbor's dumb decisions.

[Blackstrat]

It’s a scam. Recognize that most of the Big Tech firms freely share data with the feds. Further Bezos owns the US version of Pravda. That EFF calls it a victory is disappointing to say the least.

[scrum-treats]

Now do the same for Eufy, Blink, Roomba, and every other "smarthome" offering.

[egberts1]

There is no reason to give your name nor correct address to Ring.

Used an alias email.

So far, so good.

[cma → egberts1]

If Ring stuff is in the "Amazon Sidewalk" network, or eventually added to it with an update, won't be hard to locate.

[egberts1 → cma]

And open up my WiFi to Amazon Sidewalk, surely ye jest?

[cma → egberts1]

Sidewalk happens outside your network, like airtags.

[egberts1 → cma]

I stand ... uncorrected.

It is defaulted to on so you must disable Amazon Sidewall to ensure privacy.

Otherwise, your neighbors can do network probe (or Houdini) on your homeLAN over Bluetooth LE or LoRa transmission layer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Sidewalk

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ots=1&s...

https://go.catonetworks.com/Q221-SASE-Threat-Research-Report...