August Smart Locks

August Smart Locks

August
Wi-Fi Bluetooth

Data recenzji: 8 listopada 2021

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Według użytkowników: Nieco przerażające

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.

Co się może stać, jeśli coś pójdzie nie tak?

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.

Wskazówki, jak się chronić

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

Czy może mnie podsłuchiwać? informacje

Aparat

Urządzenie: Nie

Aplikacja: Tak

Mikrofon

Urządzenie: Nie

Aplikacja: Tak

Śledzi położenie

Urządzenie: Nie

Aplikacja: Tak

Czego można użyć do rejestracji?

Jakie dane zbiera ta firma?

Jak ta firma wykorzystuje te dane?

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.

Jak możesz kontrolować swoje dane?

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.

Jaka jest znana historia tej firmy w zakresie ochrony danych użytkowników?

Wymaga poprawy

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.

Czy ten produkt może być używany bez połączenia z siecią?

Tak

Przyjazne dla użytkownika informacje o prywatności?

Nie

Odnośniki do informacji o prywatności

Czy ten produkt spełnia nasze minimalne standardy bezpieczeństwa? informacje

Tak

Szyfrowanie

Tak

Silne hasło

Nie dotyczy

Aktualizacje zabezpieczeń

Tak

Zajmuje się problemami z bezpieczeństwem

Tak

August accepts reports of vulnerabilities through [email protected]

Zasady ochrony prywatności

Tak

Czy produkt wykorzystuje sztuczną inteligencję? informacje

Nie

n/a

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