Owning a Ring camera inside your home can expose your most private moments, a warning that is bad news for anyone who trusts these devices.

• A Ring worker secretly watched thousands of recordings from at least 81 women, treating the cameras like his own porn feed.
• He hunted for cameras labeled for bedrooms and bathrooms, watching for over an hour a day.
• When a coworker reported him, a manager brushed it off as normal for an engineer to view so many accounts.
• Amazon, which owns Ring, has huge cloud contracts with the CIA, NSA, and Pentagon.
• Government agencies ask for Ring footage thousands of times a year, and Ring hands it over — sometimes even without the owner's permission.

Outlook: Expect more scrutiny of in-home cameras as privacy concerns and government access to the footage keep growing.