Ring app on Android covertly sends personally identifiable information of users to third parties including Facebook and MixPanel
Ring isn't just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers.
Electronic Frontier Foundation Bill Budington
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Discussion
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Vox
Rani Molla
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How Amazon's Ring is creating a surveillance network with video doorbells
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@sanhotree
Sanho Tree
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“Information delivered to Facebook (even if you don't have a Facebook account) includes time zone, device model, language preferences, screen resolution, and a unique identifier (anon_id), which persists even when you reset the OS-level advertiser ID.” https://twitter.com/...
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@5ugarcane
Sugarcane
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Surprise! 😂 “Ring isn't just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers.” https://twitter.com/...
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@evan_greer
Evan Greer
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Ring: “our surveillance cameras are super duper privacy conscious surveillance cameras that totally protect your privacy while violating everyone else's” Also Ring: https://twitter.com/...
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@eff
@eff
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We conducted a new technical analysis on the Ring doorbell app for Android. Ring is handing over customer data including names, private IP addresses, mobile network carriers, and persistent identifiers to third-party trackers. https://www.eff.org/...
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@evacide
Eva
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Surprise! The Ring doorbell Android app shares PII with lots of third-party companies. Research by @legind and @maassive. https://twitter.com/...
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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Practically every mobile app uses analytics packages for user telemetry and conversion tracking of app install ads they run on ad networks. EFF framing this as a Ring specific privacy is misleading and just jumping on the Ring negative press bandwagon https://www.eff.org/...