>Beginning in 2016, according to one source, Ring provided its Ukraine-based research and development team virtually unfettered access to a folder on Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service that contained every video created by every Ring camera around the world.[1]

Is that why Ring has it's RnD in Ukraine, to be away from US and EU privacy laws?

[1]https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-cam...