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Policy of having only one Owner leads to privacy violations of shared users
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We all know that "shared" users of Ring have very few abilities. Shared users cannot turn off motion sensors which results in the invasion of privacy of the shared users, any other members of the household, and any guests. This is a grievous violation of privacy to the shared users and the guests in their home. You can tell I've thought about this a lot. I have points. I just feel people need to make more of a commotion about our privacy rights as shared users being violated.1. You are not consenting to being recorded even if you know there is a Ring camera in place. If you are a shared user, you are just helpless and can't have access to toggle that motion sensor off. I repeat. You are not consenting to being recorded.2. Having only one owner user gives one spouse, partner, even roommate control of the other person of the household's movements.3. If a shared user has no access to turn off the motion sensors while they are at home and go in and out of the door, all their movements, conversations on the porch (or near doorway) will be recorded.4. Rings are made for homes and families and yet they are grievously nonfamily oriented by having only one Owner User on an account.5. Rings are made for homes and yet they give the ability of adding something to be attached to a home probably jointly owned by the other spouse and yet they deny the ability of the other spouse to have control of motion sensors and treat that spouse as insignificant even if they may own the home that that Ring is being installed on in the first place.6. And what about roommates that share all the expenses of a home, maybe even the purchase of the Ring itself, and yet the Ring company wants only one of those roommates to have full control and invade the privacy of the others by not giving them the chance to have control of the toggling the motion sensors off.4. What about when you are having company, maybe a dinner or party, and your user spouse (partner) is out of town or nowhere around, you can't turn off the motion sensors and camera and recordings for the sake of your guests. That makes us as shared users violate our guest's privacy, while our user spouse (partner)is violating ours, and on up the Ring company is violating their users and down to the shared users and the shared users guests the simple right to privacy just because the Ring company refuses to allow access to motion sensors to shared users.4. Those recordings that have been made on your Ring device, end up in a data base at Ring without your consent. You didn't give your consent to your spouse (partner) to record you and you didn't give consent to Ring to record you. I repeat again. Just because you know there is a Ring camera on the doorbell is far from consent to being recorded.5. What about spouses and partners that are abusive? This system of one user only plays into their controlling behavior. They will watch the movements of their spouse (partner) and Ring has helped them along and contributed to their controlling behavior and contributed to the rights of privacy of helpless people.My husband gave me his sign in and password when I realized I was being recorded every time I went out of the house or sat on the porch, so I can turn motion sensors off and back on when I go away or when we go to bed. But it was too late for all that transpired beforehand. Just think how many recordings made its way into the Ring database without my consent and which I can do nothing about. I don't want recorded when I sit on my porch and talk on my phone, water my plants, or just hang out on the porch in general. It is a violation of my privacy. If you want us to use your product, please give us the ability to control it completely.This is not a device like headphones that is personal and there should only be one owner user. This is something that is attached to people's homes. Unless you are single and living alone, you will have your spouse, you will have your children (we had grown children living at home until recently and they hated their privacy violated when at home), you may have roommates, you may have guests and EACH shared user of a Ring device needs the ability to turn toggle the motion sensors to and off position.

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16-07-2023 18:46:11

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    A post was merged into an existing topic: [Additional Owner to one Location](/t/additional-owner-to-one-location/4594)

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    18-07-2023 21:55:01

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      18-07-2023 21:55:02

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