Ooh, I have concerns about this! I can speak for my own concerns, which may or may not be similar to others'.

The known issues with Ring are:

* Amazon and their contract staff and business partners can monitor everything on your camera
* Police departments get access to your videos without your consent
* Cameras have been compromised and become available to random people on the Internet, for listening, video monitoring, and to send audio

It's tough to describe a hypothetical without people passing you off as paranoid, but let's say I was a bad guy with access to Ring equipment. I would:

1. Monitor equipment in an area near my home
2. Record coming and going times (ie: car pulls out of the garage at 7am every day, never comes back until 4pm)
3. Visit the house, keeping clear of the camera when nobody is home

Or maybe I'd:

1. See that mom and dad's car left the house
2. See that the kid is in their bedroom
3. Mess with the kid

Or maybe I'd:

1. Get as many cameras as I could in an area
2. Store all footage I can
3. Face recognize everyone I can, tag, and correlate with Facebook information
4. Do things to people's houses when they're not at home

There's a bunch you COULD do. It's probably paranoid to think anyone would pay attention to you enough to actually do it, but for the same reason I lock my house and my car, I don't like to expose myself to unnecessary risk with my technology. The only reason to do so is for the convenience they offer, and for me the convenience isn't worth the risk.

I used to have a Ring doorbell, but we recently moved, and I did not install it in the new house. I'm not too worried about abuse, to be honest, but the doorbell wasn't some kind of amazing feature, either.

I'm also dragging my feet on re-upgrading my smoke detectors to Nest, because they have motion sensors, which are a great way to tell Google if you're home or not.