The ring should allow employees access to the door-to-door record

Owned by Amazon Ring, a smart home maker, including video ringtones, is under the control of misusing images from their cameras.

According to the statements Prestrezanje, Ring is saving videos from the smart products of all users to an unprotected folder in the cloud, which is freely accessible to employees.

One of the groups within Ring, which should have access to these videos, is a research and development group based on Ukraine. These "data operators" could use videos to learn Ring products in order to define objects more precisely and in some cases even people.

Prestrezanje reported that the R & D team has been involved in this project since 2016.

The Ukrainian team should have a database that allowed them to link the video with the party from which the video originated.

An unnamed source with whom he spoke Prestrezanje said that US employees can even enter a user's e-mail address and gain access to a live user's resource.

The company reportedly received these sensitive information because it wanted to improve its "Neighborhood" service in order to better recognize the objects.

Neighbors is an application that connects Ring users to a neighborhood so that an event occurring in one house can trigger a notification that extends across other members of the community.

According to the statements PrestrezanjeRing's Neighbors fought to identify objects, which led to the employment of the Ukrainian team, which helped to teach the cameras to identify things correctly. Ring should still employ Ukrainian data operators for manual video processing.

Call the employees you spoke to Prestrezanje mentioned that the acquisition of Ring from Amazon has led to better privacy controls.

Prestrezanje It also reports that the Ring Review of the Neighbors platform does not mention facial recognition and does not mention a group of employees who use footage to improve the object recognition system in the company.

The company's privacy policy mentions facial recognition and states that "users may choose to use additional features in your ringtone product that can recognize the characteristics of known visitors through video data from the device."

It is not mentioned whether the policy is a manual training system.

Source: Intercept