August Smart Locks

August Smart Locks

August
WLAN Bluetooth

Überprüft am: 8. November 2021

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Mozillas Meinung

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Abstimmungsergebnis: Ziemlich unheimlich

All August smart locks connect over Bluetooth for keyless entry. That means you and your phone or Apple Watch have to be close by (about 30 feet or so) to unlock your door. You can also pay a little more to get their Connect WiFi Bridge so you can unlock your door from anywhere with a WiFi connection. Visiting Grandma and need to check and make sure you locked up your house? Just open the app and check the door status. You can also give guests virtual keys and keep track of who comes and goes at your abode. It works with Alexa and Google Assistant. These smart locks also have an auto-lock that let you set your door to automatically lock up to 30 minutes after you leave. Or auto-unlock when you get home so if you hands are full, no fumbling for your phone.

Was könnte passieren, wenn etwas schiefgeht?

Smart locks are one of those connected devices that seem to worry lots of people. The pros: They offer a lot of convenience with multiple ways to unlock the door to your home, a way to track who comes and goes from your home, they can allow you give out a keypad number to people like a babysitter and then revoke that when they no longer need access, and they can help you make sure you locked your front door when your anxiety kicks in on vacation. The cons: They can be vulnerable to any number of things such as power outages, lost or compromised phones, ransomware attacks on the company who made your lock, product security vulnerabilities, WiFi and/or Bluetooth vulnerabilities, home hub vulnerabilities, bad software updates, data leaks, and more.

With all that said, how do August Smart Locks stack up? On the security side, in 2019, security researchers found a vulnerability in a version of August's smart locks that use the Connect add-on to connect to WiFi that could let hackers take over your home WiFi. The versions of August smart locks with WiFi built-in didn't seem to be vulnerable to this security threat.

On the privacy side of things, August seems to do better. August doesn't sell your personal information, which is good. They also say they will only use your personal information to send you relevant content where they have your consent to do so. This is also good. All in all, August seems to do a good job with users’ privacy. Just be careful with what you share with third parties such as Alexa or Google Assistant as they can collect data on you too.

What’s the worst that could happen? Well, it’s entirely possible August could suffer a ransomware attack where bad people hold all smart lock access hostage unless August pays up. You can’t get into your home, your pup really has to pee, and things go south from there. You and your pup really don’t want that.

Tipps zu Ihrem Schutz

  • Check out tips to ensure your smart lock safety
  • Maintain a strong door
  • Choose a secure access code
  • Set up two-factor authentication
  • mobile

Kann es mich ausspionieren? Information

Kamera

Gerät: Nein

App: Ja

Mikrofon

Gerät: Nein

App: Ja

Verfolgt den Standort

Gerät: Nein

App: Ja

Was kann zur Registrierung verwendet werden?

Welche Daten sammelt das Unternehmen?

Wie nutzt das Unternehmen die Daten?

August does not sell your personal information.

If you enable the Auto-Unlock feature, location information will only be stored on your device.

August may share your information with organizations affiliated with our parent company, the ASSA ABLOY Group. August may choose to aggregate or anonymize your information and share it with partners or others for market research or other business purposes.

Wie können Sie Ihre Daten kontrollieren?

You can request that data be deleted. You are always responsible for the photos, videos, and other personal data captured of your guests, and August provides no remediation for guests to remove photos, videos or other personal data from our systems unless expressly authorized by you.

Wie ist das Unternehmen in der Vergangenheit mit den Daten über seine Verbraucher umgegangen?

Verbesserungsbedürftig

Older versions of the August Smart Lock that pair with the August Connect may make your Wifi network vulnerable to hackers. August was notified about the vulnerability in December 2019, but may not have fixed the problem.

Kann dieses Produkt offline genutzt werden?

Ja

Benutzerfreundliche Informationen zum Datenschutz?

Nein

Links zu Datenschutzinformationen

Erfüllt dieses Produkt unsere Mindestsicherheitsstandards? Information

Ja

Verschlüsselung

Ja

Sicheres Passwort

Nicht verfügbar

Sicherheits-Updates

Ja

Umgang mit Schwachstellen

Ja

August accepts reports of vulnerabilities through [email protected]

Datenschutzrichtlinie

Ja

Verwendet das Produkt KI? Information

Nein

n/a

*Datenschutz nicht inbegriffen

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