Tech your username March 9, 2021 On Monday, the plaintiffs in a privacy suit against home security device provider Ring filed an opposition, in the Central District of California, to Ring’s motion to compel arbitration, claiming that “Ring seeks to avoid class liability or public accountability by forcing its customers into private arbitration.” According to the opposition, Ring “sold home security devices riddled with deficient security protocols and privacy protections.” The plaintiffs alleged that “(h)ackers took advantage of these obvious deficiencies to gain unauthorized access to Plaintiffs’ Ring devices,” thus allowing the hackers to “invade( ) their homes and shout( ) profanities, obscenities, and death threats at them.” Meanwhile, “(o)thers suffered the loss of their personal identifying information (‘PII’), which Ring provided to third parties without their consent or authorization.”