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Videos from Amazon’s Ring security cameras were accessible to employees

Videos and information from Amazon’s tiny Ring security cameras could be accessed by Ring employees in Ukraine and the US at the least, reports The Intercept. Employees were also using video streams from within and outside the house to tag objects in order to train its poor object-recognising software, it adds. The report also questions Ring’s standards, privacy policies, their existence, and the checks and balances. What was accessible and by who From the start of 2016, the company made available a folder on the Amazon S3 cloud storage, where ALL of Ring’s videos were stored, to its Ukraine R&D team. The files on this folder could be viewed and downloaded. These video files were unencrypted because encryption would be expensive and “make the company less valuable” The team was also given access to an information database which would link the video to Ring customers The report also mentioned that Ring’s Neighbors’ (residential surveillance program) object recognition system was not very strong, in that it could not easily differentiate between leaves, trees, people, animals, etc. Ring also had Ukrainian “data operators” who would manually tag and label objects in a video through a “training” program for its software, to teach the software to recognise these objects by itself in the future The same team also watched footage broadcasting from within the house as well as outside, and that Ring employees would show these videos to each other describing the events in those videos Executives and engineers in the US could…

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