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Ring vs. Simpkisafe
Triggered by the Super Bowl ad, Ring cameras are receiving a firestorm of criticism and alarm over their functioning as a huge Ai face recognition database gatherer. My question: do SimpliSafe doorbell cameras do the same? If not, what safeguards are built into systems and security to avoid this?
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captain11
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1 month ago
@poppatell Great lead in post for a live webinar by SS marketing; perfect poppatell! Since I live in Illinois its a non starter as it is against the law. Same in Texas and the city of Portland, so SimpliSafe at this time does not use AI face recognition. Actually, I wish they could; my property, my rules as long as I don't go over the private property boundaries. For all of you in the other 48 states DC and territories I will let SS officially respond, but do have one thing to add: to the best of my knowledge, with end to end encryption, SimpliSafe has never been hacked...yet.
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SimpliSafe_Jordan
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1 month ago
Hi there @poppatell
So our in depth privacy policy can be found here. It's actually super simple how we keep customer's safe. Our system uses AI facial recognition for our "familiar faces" feature which are saved to the account itself. Only accessible to the user's and our Outdoor Monitoring agents who utilize those saved familiar faces by the user to verify that individuals on the property belong there and aren't trespassers, and always video footage is deleted after 30 days and as @captain11 mentioned our systems are protected by end to end encryption and multi factor authentication for protection on the account level. This topic recently came up on Reddit where I posted this reply as well.
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