Ring doorbell 'gives Facebook and Google user data'

bbc.com

190 points·pseudolus··21 comments

This is just rewriting the info from the EFF report, without even doing them the courtesy of linking to it: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-pack...

Discussion from yesterday (same report posted on boingboing): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22165985

We'll merge the discussions into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22165568, which was posted a bit earlier and has the original source. We'll also roll back the clock on it to give it some more front page time, since there's clearly still momentum to discuss it. Thanks!

> But the EFF said Ring was failing to protect users' privacy, noting only one of the trackers it had found was mentioned in the company's privacy policy.

Wow. We're fast approaching a dystopian future where privacy will no longer be at all possible.

Aren't Ring doorbells something you purchase? Then how can they treat your data like this? It's not it's a free product you're using in exchange for tracking and ads.

Anything for a buck. Its one thing if the product is free and you are being sold out as a user, its something else when you are a paying customer and not a mere user.

by "gives" they mean "sell", right?

Actually, they are paying at least MixPanel to take this data and probably giving a bunch of the rest for access to other data/tools like crash reporting.

No, from the article, they are probably services that most mobile apps use (Mixpanel, Crashlytics, etc).

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