Blink Security Cameras

Blink Security Cameras

Amazon
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Fecha de la reseña: 8 de Noviembre de 2020

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Amazon's other line of security cameras, they also own Ring, are these indoor and outdoor Blink security cams. They tend to be cheaper than Ring cameras, they offer local storage (yay!), come in a mini-cam, an indoor cam, an outdoor cam, and a floodlight cam, and feature all the usual: HD video, two-way audio, motion detection and night vision. It's Amazon, so of course these work with Alexa. You can keep on 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.

¿Qué podría pasar si algo falla?

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 cameras 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, these Blink security cameras don't worry us too much as far as security cameras go. Still, they’re cameras inside your house, so it's good to turn them off when you are home if you can.

Consejos para protegerte

  • Turn your the cameras inside your home off when you are there.
  • Store video locally as much as possible rather than in the Cloud.
  • Set up two-factor authentication on your account.
  • Manage your Alexa privacy settings
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¿Me puede espiar? Información

Cámara

Dispositivo:

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Micrófono

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Rastrea la ubicación

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¿Qué se puede usar para registrarse?

¿Qué datos recopila la empresa?

¿Cómo utiliza la empresa estos datos?

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.

¿Cómo puedes controlar el uso de tus datos?

Blink's privacy statement is not clear 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 also send you through customer service bureaucracy to check your deletion rights.

¿Qué historial tiene la compañía en cuanto a la protección de los datos de los usuarios?

Promedio

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

¿El producto se puede usar sin conexión?

No

¿La información de privacidad es fácil de entender?

A separate privacy policy is provided

Enlaces a información de privacidad

¿El producto cumple nuestros estándares mínimos de seguridad? Información

Cifrado

Contraseña fuerte

Blink requires 2-step verification for all logins to the user’s account by receiving a text message containing the OTP which is entered by the user in-app to authenticate.

Actualizaciones de seguridad

Gestiona las vulnerabilidades

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

Política de privacidad

¿El producto usa IA? Información

No se puede determinar

¿Es poco confiable esta IA?

No se puede determinar

¿Qué tipo de decisiones toma la IA acerca de ti o por ti?

¿La empresa es transparente acerca del funcionamiento de la IA?

No se puede determinar

¿Tiene el usuario control sobre las características de la IA?

No se puede determinar

*privacidad no incluida

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