Ring Gets Encryption

Ring has added end-to-end encryption to its smart doorbells. The Electronic Frontier Foundation asked Amazon to implement this last year after concern over the misuse of people’s videos, which are stored on Amazon’s servers. Until now, Amazon has been free to look at your videos, and a few employees have been fired for unauthorized access. The police can also access footage without your consent or knowledge. Some complain that the new encryption makes the use of footage by law enforcement more difficult; others are happy knowing that random Amazon employees can’t watch them fumbling with their keys after a night out. The encryption needs to be actively enabled.