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These devices trade convince for privacy.

The minute you allow a device you do not 100% control to send data to a service provider, you should not consider that information private. The service provider has no legal obligation to keep the information or data private- I assume somewhere buried in the Terms of Service it says as much.

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The Ring devices are frequently pointed at the outside of people's houses. Its effectively giving Amazon a bunch of surveillance cameras all over the street from people's doors.

Ring is owned by Amazon, not Google

Derp, i was confusing it with nest. Thanks for pointing that out (doesn't really change the sentiment at all)

Stealth edit?

He cleared explained the edit on the thread. Is it still a problem?

He didn't, actually. Clearly explaining is "Amazon (edit: I originally mistakenly said Google)". That way people who don't read to the bottom of the thread can figure out what happened... right now it looks like rafaelc has a nonsensical complaint, if you stop reading at his comment.

Oh, yes, sorry, I didn't mean to be "stealthy"

Thanks!

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