A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon
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The Fulu Foundation offers a $10,000 bounty for hackers to disable Ring cameras' data-sharing with Amazon, following backlash over a Super Bowl ad and Ring's partnership with Flock.
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Source: WIRED
In response to a Super Bowl commercial from Amazon-owned security camera company Ring, the Fulu Foundation, a non-profit, is offering to dole out a $10,000 bounty to wrest back control of the user data Ring controls. The commercial was met largely with widespread criticism across social media and the tech press, which called out Search Party for essentially being a thinly-veiled neighborhood surveillance dragnet. People are even publicly destroying their Ring cameras. In response, Ring immediately canceled its partnership with the controversial AI surveillance company Flock. Fulu’s bounty is meant to encourage hackers and tinkerers to disable software features that require Ring doorbell cameras to send data to Amazon. Full Story