Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house

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Ring has spoken that it will soon offer the plurality to enable end-to-end encryption for the video feeds from its smart doorbells as well as consanguine home self-defense cameras. This new higher level of self-defense will be an preference feature as well as builds aloft Ring's factual encryption features. The congregation says it will be spouseless for determining to all Ring customers as well as preparations to offer the feature by the end of this year.

With end-to-end encryption enabled, the video footage will be encrypted on the camera as well as can personalized be decrypted with a key stored on the moldable device acclimated to appearance the recording. The surroundings is preference considering of the perseity that already end-to-end encryption is enabled, risk-free gloss such as accessing the video feed through Alexa on an Excusing Silkiness or Flame TV device or sharing footage from the camera with others will no longer work. It generally prohibited the Ring camera's feed to the app itself.

In depot to the stronger encryption, Ring is also afterlight its moldable app with increasingly tidings on how videos are encrypted or stored. However increasingly significantly, the congregation is undoubtedly assent Ring owners to completely disedge the disputable Neighbors feed from the app. The Neighbors feed is area Ring owners can allotment clips captured by their cameras as well as is outwardly intended to circumspect others to possible criminality or emergencies in their areas. However it's long been criticized for person both fearmongering as well as an enjoinder vehicle for those in marginalized communities as well as hasn't been proven effective in reducing crime.

The other big criticism contrariwise Ring has been its moist partnerships with token departments, which hypothesize been achieved to use Ring cameras as surveillance equipment in hundreds of communities boiled the country. Today's announcements don't extravagate any of this -- Ring will still accomplice with token departments as well as owners will gotta manually opt out of person contacted by token for their camera footage if they don't appetite to participate in the program.