It’s a bit more difficult to explain to your neighbors. You unscrew your apartment-door peephole, screw in the Ring hardware, snap in the rechargeable batteries, and download the app. You’ll also get an alert whenever the camera senses activity, allowing you to see what’s moving outside the door by default, the camera records 30 seconds of video whenever its motion sensors are tripped. There’s a doorbell button on it that, when pressed, sends an alert to your phone, and it has a small speaker which can function as an intercom. A few days later I received a test unit of the Peephole Cam, a newish model with a small footprint designed for apartment-dwellers and renters.Īs a camera, the Peephole Cam, like other Rings, is boringly straightforward. Why not see for myself what it was like to live with one? Was it as useful as its popularity suggested? As dangerous as its detractors feared? So, last year, I emailed the company and asked for a test unit. This seemed like a good reason to get a Ring. Ring was a prominent rationale for the tech experts who named Amazon “ the most dangerous tech company” in Slate’s recent poll. Over the last year I’d spent a lot of time reading about Ring - dozens of articles published in the Intercept, Recode, Vice, and Cnet - detailing the company’s sloppy security practices, secretive police partnerships, and many potential privacy violations. On the other hand, I am very troubled by dystopian future-tech. ![]() But I’m not personally much troubled by petty crime - I’ve had a package stolen only once in the ten years I’ve lived in New York - and I couldn’t see myself getting much mileage out of a video doorbell, except to prank friends and annoy my girlfriend. ![]() I knew that “ millions of users” worldwide had installed one of the many cloud-enabled security devices sold by the company, which is owned by Amazon, and I’d seen dozens of quasi-viral Ring-camera videos, often broadcast on local television news: clips of porch pratfalls, curious animals, petty criminals, particularly skilled or incompetent delivery drivers, all providentially recorded and uploaded by the Ring’s fisheye lens to the cloud. I didn’t really think I’d ever have a Ring doorbell. The author trying to explain his Ring camera to his neighbor
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