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Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance (www.eff.org)
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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-st

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[–] Junkernaught@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago (35 children)

So, what are people using to get:

  • good quality streaming
  • doorbell alert
  • motion alerts
  • local and remote access
  • recording storage

Currently using Ring (outside of America) and looking to migrate away. There are some nice other features like distinguishing motion vs people vs vehicles that are nice to have but can live without.

[–] chtk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I recently adopted a dog who I want to monitor when I'm away from home. So I got a cheap motion tracking in-home camera with cloud storage, and AI identification for people and pets. The AI functions never fucking worked. I already had a Ring camera.

Did a bit of research after realising the cheapo camera was shit, and went for a eufy stack to replace the Ring doorbell and tbr shitty in-house camera.

I now have:

  • eufy Video Doorbell
  • eufy HomeBase 3, with an added 1TB of storage
  • eufy IndoorCam C220

This gives me

  • local storage for both cameras on the HomeBase.
  • the HomeBase also gives you local AI for (individual) person, (general) pet, vehicle, and package identification. I haven't tried the vehicle identification.
  • streaming in the app for both cameras should work in 2k. I have it set to 1080p. It's good enough for me.
  • continuous recording is an option. I have it set to motion alerts because
  • the app gives you motion and doorbell alerts. You can configure how much information you want in the notifications, to prevent video's from passing through eufy's servers.
[–] gesshoku@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

While this happened a few years ago, I'd still suggest to block it from accessing the internet/cloud in your firewall nonetheless.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/12/01/eufy-cameras-uploading-to-cloud-without-consent/

Even if it's not on eufy's end, there could always be a vulnerability.

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