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The title is kind of clickbait. Amazon is requesting live crime data so they can push it to an app they made that ties into your ring doorbell and alerts you t
by ars 7y ago
The title is kind of clickbait.
Amazon is requesting live crime data so they can push it to an app they made that ties into your ring doorbell and alerts you to crime.
It's related to an option you have to share video from your doorbell back to the cops if it caught any activity on camera.
- danso 7y agoThis data isn't yet commonly disseminated by police departments. At least, not in the way restaurant inspection data is standardized and made available thanks to Yelp's LIVES [0]. In the case of Yelp/inspection data, cities generally have a public API or URL, accessible to both Yelp and anyone else. [0] https://www.yelp.com/healthscores https://www.yelp.com/healthscores
- allana 7y agoSeattle, Hood River County and many other places have had public dispach and incident trackers available for at least a decade. You can listen to radio traffic with an SDR or XTS5000 and shortly thereafter a pin will appear on a map marking the incident location, typr of incident, police report and other data.
- AdamJacobMuller 7y ago> It's related to an option you have to share video from your doorbell back to the cops if it caught any activity on camera. Very cool feature IMO. On at least three occasions I've given video footage to the police. Just this week a cop rang my (Nest) doorbell and said one of my neighbors reported that someone had ransacked his car overnight. I looked through footage and was able to find a car driving up the street checking everyone's door handles and searching the one's that were open. I was very happy to share it with police and as long as the choice remains with me about how and when to do so I will be very happy to provide them with footage in the future.