Blink Video Doorbell

Blink Video Doorbell

Amazon
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Überprüft am: 8. November 2021

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Mozillas Meinung

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Abstimmungsergebnis: Ziemlich unheimlich

Amazon's other line of video doorbells, they also own Ring, is the more affordable Blink video doorbell. This camera-on-your-front-porch offers all the usual: HD video, two-way audio, motion detection and night vision. The Blink video doorbell also has local storage (yay!) as well as the option for a subscription cloud storage service. It's Amazon, so of course these work with Alexa. You can keep an eye on everything with the Blink Home Monitor app on your phone. As they say on their website, "Blink and you're home," which, honestly, I have no idea what that means.

Was könnte passieren, wenn etwas schiefgeht?

Blink was acquired by Amazon in December, 2017. Amazon's other security camera maker, Ring, has had a plethora of privacy and security issues they've had to deal with over the past couple years. Blink is not Ring. Blink video doorbells don't easily work on the Ring Neighbors app that has raised concerns for us around public safety and racism. You can manually upload a Blink video to the Neighbors app, but you can do that with any video. And these Blink cameras have a local storage option that means you aren’t required to store your video in the Cloud to access it, which is a much better privacy option.

Blink cameras have had a few reported security vulnerabilities, often found by security researchers and fixed quickly with firmware updates, which is how it should be (and a good reminder to keep your device’s firmware up-to-date!). It’s still concerning when security vulnerabilities like the ones found in Blink could allow bad guys to hijack your camera. This is always a concern with any security camera though.

Blink says they “are not in the business of selling our customers’ personal information to others,” which is good. However, they are an Amazon company, so expect that Amazon will try and sell you lots of stuff based on the personal information Blink does collect on you. All in all, the Blink video doorbell doesn't worry us too much as far as video doorbells go. Still, they’re cameras outside your house, so it's remember to not point them directly at your neighbor's bedroom. We all deserve privacy in our growing surveillance world.

  • mobile

Kann es mich ausspionieren? Information

Kamera

Gerät: Ja

App: Ja

Mikrofon

Gerät: Ja

App: Ja

Verfolgt den Standort

Gerät: Ja

App: Ja

Was kann zur Registrierung verwendet werden?

Welche Daten sammelt das Unternehmen?

Wie nutzt das Unternehmen die Daten?

Blink (an Amazon company) does not sell customer information. Blink Recordings are streamed to the cloud. You give Blink all permissions they need to use your Blink Recordings to do so. These permissions include, for example, the rights to copy your Blink Recordings, modify your Blink Recordings to generate clips, use information about your Blink Recordings to organize them on your behalf, and review your Blink Recordings to provide technical support.

Wie können Sie Ihre Daten kontrollieren?

Blink's privacy statement is not transparent regarding deletion rights and retention details for data. It says that some groups of people are not able to request access to or deletion of data. They are also sending you through the Customer Service bureaucracy to check your deletion rights.

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

Durchschnittlich

In December 2019, Amazon fixed a security flaw that would allow hackers to hijack the Blink camera.

Kann dieses Produkt offline genutzt werden?

Nein

Benutzerfreundliche Informationen zum Datenschutz?

Ja

A separate privacy policy is provided

Links zu Datenschutzinformationen

Erfüllt dieses Produkt unsere Mindestsicherheitsstandards? Information

Ja

Verschlüsselung

Ja

Sicheres Passwort

Ja

2-step verification is required for all logins.

Sicherheits-Updates

Ja

Umgang mit Schwachstellen

Ja

For Blink, security researchers can report a vulnerability by emailing [email protected].

Datenschutzrichtlinie

Ja

Verwendet das Produkt KI? Information

Nicht zu bestimmen

Ist diese KI nicht vertrauenswürdig?

Nicht zu bestimmen

Welche Entscheidungen trifft die KI über Sie oder für Sie?

Can't determine

Gibt das Unternehmen transparent an, wie die KI funktioniert?

Nicht zu bestimmen

Hat der Benutzer die Kontrolle über die KI-Funktionen?

Nicht zu bestimmen

*Datenschutz nicht inbegriffen

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