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Pranksters appear to have exploited Ring's sign-up system to send official emails from the vendor that contain racist slurs.
Tucked into several new features for its Neighbors app, Ring announces it will sunset the controversial 'Request for Assistance' tool that allowed police to ask camera owners for videos.
Amazon's home security company is expanding the availability of end-to-end encryption outside the US.
Starting June 7, police departments and other public safety agencies that want access to footage gathered from Ring's security cameras and doorbells will need to make those requests publicly via the Neighbors app.
The privacy group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, examined the network traffic Ring's Android app will transmit and found that the app will send off customer data to third-party companies, including Facebook.
The list contains email addresses and passwords for Ring.com accounts, as well as time zones and the names users assigned to each internet-connected camera. Ring, however, blames weak passwords and says it was not breached.
In the past week, the culprits have victimized at least three families by using the camera's voice function to hurl racial insults and conduct pranks. Ring itself wasn't hacked, but Ring owners should consider activating two-factor authentication on their accounts to stay safe.
