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               Ring Security Cameras Adding End-to-End Encryption

   Josh Centers

   A year after the Electronic Frontier Foundation called on Amazon to
   enable end-to-end encryption on Ring video doorbells, [1]Amazon has
   begun rolling out the feature. End-to-end encryption ensures that
   Amazon employees cannot see what's been recorded from your doorbell,
   and more importantly, should guarantee that Amazon cannot hand over
   that footage to law enforcement without you being served with a
   warrant. However, to take advantage of end-to-end encryption, you must
   [2]enable it manually.

   Ring has been the center of multiple privacy controversies, such as
   sending Wi-Fi passwords in the clear without encryption (see
   '[3]Amazon's Ring Doorbells Sent Wi-Fi Passwords in the Clear,' 21
   November 2019) and recruiting police departments to sell Ring cameras
   ('[4]Amazon Using Police Departments to Sell Ring Cameras,' 29 July
   2019). We'd like to see Ring make end-to-end encryption the default to
   prove that it's not just tossing a bone to privacy advocates while
   still profiting from those who are unaware of the implications or are
   intimidated by the setup steps.

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   1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/amazon-rings-end-end-encryption-what-it-means
   2. https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360054941551
   3. https://tidbits.com/2019/11/21/amazons-ring-doorbells-sent-wi-fi-passwords-in-the-clear/
   4. https://tidbits.com/2019/07/29/amazon-using-police-departments-to-sell-ring-cameras/
   5. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/amazon-rings-end-end-encryption-what-it-means

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