Amazon-owned Ring app sending users’ data to 3rd parties

San Francisco: The US-based digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF) has found that Amazon-owned Ring doorbell app is “packed” with third-party tracking, sending out plethora of customers’ personally identifiable information.

An investigation of the Ring doorbell app for Android discovered that four main analytics and marketing companies – including Facebook and Google — were receiving information such as the names, private IP addresses, mobile network carriers, persistent identifiers, and sensor data on the devices of paying customers.

“Not only does Ring mismanage consumer data, but it also intentionally hands over that data to trackers and data miners,” the EEF said in a release late Tuesday.