I take the EFF with a grain of salt. I really value their mission, but yes, some of their articles can be a bit fear based. However, behind every fear based art

I take the EFF with a grain of salt. I really value their mission, but yes, some of their articles can be a bit fear based. However, behind every fear based article is a reason based argument, but the reason based argument wouldn't have the same shock value. For the Ring doorbell, I am less worried about an Amazon employee misusing my data than a group of thieves hacking WiFi networks (really not hard) to steal Ring videos in transit to be able to stake out multiple neighborhoods at once. If an Amazon employee has access, it's (probably) not E2E encrypted. So the question is, do you trust Amazon to make their devices, servers, and communication between both secure? I don't because it's not really in their interest to do so.