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Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras (www.eff.org)
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[–] Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Amazon bought Ring in 2018 and the enshitification has been coming for years, just another reason to ditch all Ring cameras.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In that case, I'd create a second wireless network that doesn't have internet access to keep it all in-house under my control.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

All IoT devices should be on their own LAN segment already with no WAN access. It’s the first rule of having IoT devices. If you need remote access, VPN securely. There is no other way to do it safely.

[–] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

If you use ‘em end-to-end encrypt the storage and transmission. You lose some features but at least it makes hijacking them more inconvenient.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, my house has Wyze cams, and it very much wasn't up to me, and I was still pissed about it before I saw this article. Yes, I'm pissed'er now.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wyze isn’t Ring…

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you have more faith they're not likely to follow suit than I do.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Depending on your specific Wyze cameras, you can literally make them local only and never need to send back to Wyze servers. https://robsears.com/wyze-cam-v2-rtsp-iptables/

Edit: actually, looks like it’s officially supported for v3 as well. https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051619871-Does-Wyze-Cam-v3-support-RTSP

So yeah, completely different ball game. If Wyze ever does anything you don’t like you can just turn your cameras into cameras you control completely.