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Throw away your Ring, Nest, ADT, Arlo, or cloud video camera before it causes you problems. Here's why:
Law enforcement need only a subpoena or an emergency request to seize your cloud video from Ring, Nest, ADT, or nearly any major camera brand without asking you. Company employees can watch your feed all day. Your footage can also be used to train AI. You agreed to this when you checked that box on the very long legal agreement.
Here's the proof:
Amazon / Ring disabled a customer’s Echo, cameras, and lights for a week after a driver thought he heard a racial slur on a Ring doorbell camera.
An ADT technician secretly accessed cameras in more than 200 homes to spy on women undressing and was sentenced to 52 months in prison.
The Federal Trade Commission said Ring employees spied on customers and the company will pay five point eight million dollars and delete unlawfully obtained videos.
Consumer Reports warned that brands including SimpliSafe can share stored clips with police in emergencies without notifying the owner.
Feb 2024 outage mixed up IDs, letting 13 000 users glimpse strangers’ live camera feeds. Again!
In 2022 Amazon told Congress it had already handed over Ring door and security camera footage to U.S. police 11 times that year under “emergency” demands, with no warrant or owner consent.
Oct 15 2024, The Verge reported SimpliSafe’s new Active Guard service lets live agents watch your camera feed in real time while artificial intelligence flags motion.
The Sun covered a widespread outage on May 7 2025 that locked hundreds of Arlo customers out of their security feeds, underscoring how Arlo’s cloud servers, not the homeowners, ultimately control access to the footage.
August 2024 ADT disclosed hackers stole data on about thirty thousand customers, including addresses and phone numbers, and the dump surfaced on the dark web.
ADT paid 16 million dollars to settle five class action lawsuits after researchers showed its unencrypted wireless alarms could be jammed, letting burglars slip in unnoticed.
Guardian exposé: Apple employees overheard medical info, drug deals, and couples having sex.