Hackers keep digitally breaking into people's homes and spying on them through popular Amazon doorbell device Ring. And experts say the hacks are likely to continue.
Through Ring partnerships, police departments can submit requests for videos from people's cameras within a specific time frame, which homeowners can decline. Beginning in February, users will be able to preemptively opt out of receiving requests from police. However, as with any security footage, police can pursue a search warrant to seize video even after a user has declined to share it.
with Business Insider, saying they give both law enforcement and customers "more privacy, more security, and more control." "The white suburban homeowners who buy these devices are not particularly likely to switch off notifications from police," Evan Greer, the deputy director of the nonprofit group Fight for the Future, said of police video requests. "What about all of the people that walked by that camera, the mail carrier that has to walk up to that camera every day, the teenagers in the park across the street ...
"If you get hacked, they would know everything about you," Brian Vecci, the field chief technology officer at the data-security firm Varonis, said. "They would know exactly what rooms you're in. They would know every member of your family and when they come and go. You start putting multiple types of data together, and you can start telling this interesting and powerful, and potentially really damaging story about a person.
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