“You are solely responsible for complying with any applicable privacy and video surveillance laws in your jurisdiction. This may include, for example, your responsibility to display a notice alerting visitors that you are using a camera.”
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By assigning sole legal compliance responsibility to the user, Wyze disclaims any shared or parallel obligation to ensure the user's camera use complies with local privacy or surveillance law.
The updated privacy statement now explicitly states that Wyze Watch and Wyze Band collect information about your contacts, incoming SMS messages, and incoming phone calls to support incoming call alerts and text message previews on those devices. This represents a disclosure of data collection practices tied to specific device features. The collection occurs to enable the notification functionality these devices advertise, though the statement does not specify retention periods, deletion policies, or whether this data is shared with third parties.
View change record →Wyze requires you, not Wyze, to identify and comply with all privacy and video surveillance laws that apply to your use of the camera in your jurisdiction.
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"You are solely responsible for complying with any applicable privacy and video surveillance laws in your jurisdiction. This may include, for example, your responsibility to display a notice alerting visitors that you are using a camera.Excerpt from Wyze's Privacy Statement
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By assigning sole legal compliance responsibility to the user, Wyze disclaims any shared or parallel obligation to ensure the user's camera use complies with local privacy or surveillance law.
Wyze requires you, not Wyze, to identify and comply with all privacy and video surveillance laws that apply to your use of the camera in your jurisdiction.
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