• crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    …and do they sell data, including video, to law enforcement and insurance?

    Sincerely, A person who recently was in a fender bender and was not surprised at all when Progressive shared “incident footage” from a Ring camera across the street at a location completely unrelated to the fender bender

    (They ARE selling your data, folks. NEVER trust big tech to act in your best interest)

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      I stopped my Ring subscription but kept the doorbell camera.

      It wasn’t until a year later when I was moving and the house was almost completely empty (still had internet/wifi setup) and I looked at the wifi app and saw that the ring doorbell still had significant data usage.

      They were clearly still capturing my doorbell video.

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      4 days ago

      Umm… that could have just been the other driver asking the person for their footage from the camera they saw.

      Not everything is a conspiracy dude, that’s commonly done after any incident lmfao.

      I have cameras and plenty of people have asked me for random footage for thefts and collisions, none being a company or insurance, always the person affected…

      Edit, sorry I guess once the police did, but still there’s nothing odd or weird about what happened to you.