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To clarify, police can’t simply access Ring camera footage at will. They have to send out a request around a certain incident and Ring users are free to choose
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
To clarify, police can’t simply access Ring camera footage at will. They have to send out a request around a certain incident and Ring users are free to choose if they want to contribute their footage.
The article mentions this:
> In exchange, Amazon provides police departments with an easy way to request and store footage from thousands of residents at one time––allowing for massive warrantless surveillance.
“Massive warrantless surveillance” doesn’t make sense because police don’t need a warrant to ask people if they’d like to volunteer footage of an incident.
- tadfisher 5y agoAmazon is volunteering their customers, however. If the police can identify Ring customers through the tools provided by Amazon, that's definitely outside the bounds of an ordinary business relationship, regardless of the legalese in the TOS. Even if the police can't identify customers, only request anonymous tips, that feels only a little less insidious, more along the lines of signing customers up for spam or selling purchase history.