Ring founder Jamie Siminoff on default encryption and AI privacy
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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff on default encryption and AI privacy

B1IntermediateSeptember 1, 202611 min
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Amazon's popular brand of video-enabled smart home and security devices, Ring, is adding a new encryption system called TAKE — Throw Away the Key Encryption. It allows users to encrypt all video their home cameras capture while keeping advanced AI-enabled capabilities and security features active. The company already offered traditional end-to-end encryption, but that disabled advanced security features processed on the cloud that required Ring servers to maintain access to the video. Ring’s founder, Jamie Siminoff, says TAKE works by changing — or "throwing away" — the encryption key so Amazon servers don't have permanent access. More o...

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Ring moves to make its video footage more private. From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Carino. Amazon's popular brand of video-enabled smart home and security devices, Ring, is adding

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a new encryption system called Take, short for throw away the key encryption. It allows users to encrypt all video their home cameras capture while keeping advanced AI-enabled capabilities and security features active. The company already offered traditional end-to-end encryption, but that disabled advanced security features processed on the cloud, the required

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Ring servers to maintain access to the video. Ring's founder Jamie Semenov says the new take encryption works by changing or throwing away the encryption key so Amazon's servers don't have permanent access. We've had end-to-end encryption as an option for people.

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