The announcement came a few days later, as the Amazon-owned company said in September that E2E would arrive in late 2020. Currently, Ring encrypts content when it is being loaded or stored on its cloud servers. Once activated, data and videos will be encrypted in all parts of the network and can only be viewed by the user. Ring also allows users to determine how long their videos are stored online before deletion.
Adding end-to-end encryption to your platform will hopefully deflect criticism that Ring has acted fast and loose with customer security. In the past two years, defense agencies and security groups have said the Ring Android app was filled with third-party trackers. Other attempts by high-profile hackers, in which malicious individuals gained access to the buzzers, forced the company to double its security. And, until 2020, the company focused on regaining user confidence.
It arrives at a time when several IoT devices were exposed as less than safe, with video bells highlighted to attract attention. After all, they are a crucial tool for many homeowners, both to greet (and filter) visitors, as well as to monitor activity on their doors. Two months ago, the British consumer agency that? he looked at a series of bells from other brands, finding them dangerously insecure.
We hope that the Ring announcement will encourage other manufacturers to take the security and privacy of their users more seriously. Although there are still many questions to be asked about the company’s proximity to some law enforcement agencies in the United States and the implications of that.