- mrnobody@reddthat.comEnglish6 days
No kidding?? So they were independent, then bought by Amazon, then sold??
- 6 days
Nah, Ring hasn’t been part of Amazon for almost 3 years. Amazon has their own brand now, called Blink or something.
- 3 days
So random comment to come back to, but this was just wrong apparently and i just believed it. Very much still owned by Amazon.
- zikzak025@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
OP’s account exists only to post articles from this one source, I don’t think they’re a real person.
- ramenshaman@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
IIRC Amazon bought Ring quite some time ago. Run partnered with Flock a while back and then cancelled their contract recently? Correct me if I’m wrong.
- plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
“Cancelled” is corpo speak for “it’s too controversial right ow, we’ll try again later”.
- 6 days
Cost and Time to implement is the other reason it was cancelled (on top of Controversy), so it’s not something they’ll “likely try later”.
- plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
I don’t even remotely believe that. Cost is nothing since it would likely be funded by tax dollars, and the implementation is already mostly done.
- 6 days
Ring left Amazon back in 2023. And the Flock partnership was in October, and they canceled it last month due to backlash, time and cost.
5 daysBut also, this substack has outdated info or neglects to mention that backlash to this did make a difference
- MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
Additionally, from the article:
In 2023, Amazon paid $5.8 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that Ring employees and contractors had broad, unrestricted access to private customer videos due to inadequate safeguards, as documented in FTC settlement reporting.
Security researchers have identified vulnerabilities in Flock hardware.
More than 60 Flock surveillance cameras were previously found exposed on the open internet, allowing access to live feeds and archived footage, according to San News investigations.
YOU DONT OWN YOUR DATA. YOU DONT OWN YOUR VIDEO RECORDINGS.
Ring owns your videos and they can do whatever we want with it.
I will keep yelling this from rooftops until Ring owners understand.
- AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish7 days
Do high-powered lasers ruin the sensors on these?
Asking for a friend.
- wuffah@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
Yes, and they can also instantly blind at long ranges faster than the human eye can close, so don’t go firing them at people’s houses.
- 6 days
No need, they cancelled the partnership last month, this is old news, do some research before immediately trusting a post.
- 6 days
Old news, they cancelled the partnership last month. https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-and-flock-cancel-partnership/
- some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
Do we really believe that? I’m going to need more than “we pinky promise not to”
- 5 days
If they just cancelled it because of the controversy, I wouldn’t believe it. But they mention the time and expense of implementing it was prohibitive, so they probably won’t change their mind on the cancellation. They are a business, after all.
