{"id":1977,"date":"2021-06-26T07:59:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T05:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/26\/i-spy-are-smart-doorbells-creating-a-global-surveillance-network\/"},"modified":"2021-06-26T07:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T05:59:24","slug":"i-spy-are-smart-doorbells-creating-a-global-surveillance-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/26\/i-spy-are-smart-doorbells-creating-a-global-surveillance-network\/","title":{"rendered":"I spy: are smart doorbells creating a global surveillance network?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They were sold as gadgets that meant you would never miss a delivery. But now doorbell cameras \u2013 from Amazon\u2019s Ring to Google\u2019s Nest \u2013 are recording our every move<\/p>\n<p>I have got a new doorbell. It\u2019s brilliant. It should be; it cost \u00a389. It\u2019s a Ring video doorbell; you\u2019ll have seen them around. There are others available, made by other companies, with other four-letter names such as Nest and Arlo. When someone rings my doorbell, I\u2019m alerted on my smartphone. I can see who is there, and speak to them.<\/p>\n<p>My phone is ringing! C major first inversion chord, arpeggiated, repeated, for the musically trained \u2013 you\u2019ll recognise it if you\u2019ve heard it. It\u2019s a delivery. Amazon, as it happens; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/feb\/28\/amazon-buys-video-doorbell-ring-smart-home-delivery\" title=\"\">Amazon acquired Ring<\/a> in 2018, reportedly for more than $1bn.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/jun\/26\/i-spy-are-smart-doorbells-creating-a-global-surveillance-network\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bf2765c14ea30e9759005369d6e2297a72119ca3\/755_0_1899_1139\/master\/1899.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2b4b1e694e58bab5e737af55a3d7bd81\" title=\"I spy: are smart doorbells creating a global surveillance network?\" \/>They were sold as gadgets that meant you would never miss a delivery. But now doorbell cameras \u2013 from Amazon\u2019s Ring to Google\u2019s Nest \u2013 are recording our every move<br \/>\nI have got a new doorbell. It\u2019s brilliant. It should be; it cost \u00a389. It\u2019s a Ring video doorbell; you\u2019ll have seen them around. There are others available, made by other companies, with other four-letter names such as Nest and Arlo. When someone rings my doorbell, I\u2019m alerted on my smartphone. I can see who is there, and speak to them.<br \/>\nMy phone is ringing! C major first inversion chord, arpeggiated, repeated, for the musically trained \u2013 you\u2019ll recognise it if you\u2019ve heard it. It\u2019s a delivery. Amazon, as it happens; Amazon acquired Ring in 2018, reportedly for more than $1bn. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were sold as gadgets that meant you would never miss a delivery. But now doorbell cameras \u2013 from Amazon\u2019s Ring to Google\u2019s Nest \u2013 are recording our every move I have got a new doorbell. It\u2019s brilliant. It should be; it cost \u00a389. It\u2019s a Ring video doorbell; you\u2019ll have seen them around. There &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/26\/i-spy-are-smart-doorbells-creating-a-global-surveillance-network\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I spy: are smart doorbells creating a global surveillance network?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}