"Better Late Than Never: Ring Adds End-to-End Encryption to Battery Powered Doorbells"
Amazon-owned company Ring is making good on its promise to bring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to a broader range of its devices. This week, the company added E2EE to its lower-cost battery-powered doorbells and cameras, which were left out of the company’s previous E2EE rollout. The addition marks Ring’s latest attempt to correct course on a product history littered with privacy and security blunders. Privacy advocates and security experts in the past pushed Ring and other device makers like it to incorporate E2EE by default. Ring’s encryption services, which are opt-in, provide enrolled devices with an encryption key to unlock the encrypted videos. Ring claims that the key keeps anyone other than the device’s users, including Ring itself, from accessing the videos. Further, Ring says all video uploaded to its cloud network features E2EE.