This data collection feature doesn’t affect every single owner of a Ring product to clear things up. Rather, it’s part of an opt-in scheme called Ring Neighbors, which helps keep communities safe.
The idea behind Ring Neighbors is pretty smart. You have all these homes in a neighborhood, and they have various smart devices to monitor what’s going on outside the front door. Ring Neighbors combines everyone’s data and uses the result to paint a picture of what’s happening on a community level. So it’s essentially a community-run CCTV system.
Everything submitted to an agency can be seen by everyone in the Neighbors app. Even after the investigation is finished, users can bring up an agency’s profile and see all the information sent to them and how the agency used it.
