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Warning: caught a neighbor's Ring camera picking up my panel test signals
I was doing a routine panel test at a house near Cleveland last Tuesday and noticed the neighbor's Ring floodlight kept blinking every time I triggered the alarm signal. Turns out the smart home cameras are picking up the RF bursts from old wireless sensors and can basically snoop on when systems are active. Anyone else had to deal with customers complaining about privacy concerns from smart home devices picking up alarm signals?
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david8212d ago
margaret_bennett3 hit it on the head with that Amazon data thing. This is just one tiny piece of the whole "smart home" bubble where everything is spying on everything else. I've noticed my phone suggesting news articles about stuff I only talked about near my smart speaker, not even searched for. It's like we're trading a little convenience for a massive loss of privacy, and people don't really stop to think how all these devices talk to each other in the background. Your neighbor's Ring picking up alarm signals is just the latest example of that pattern.
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