The Verge reports on the considerable linking of Ring devices with police and fire departments. Have had one installed since they emerged. As usual the privacy fanatics assume that this can be abused, and thus is inherently bad. The other part of the implication is that police are bad, so helping them out must also be suspect. The stats are interesting in this and the attached article. Continue to follow, and I do occasionally thumb through shared alerts.
Amazon’s Ring now reportedly partners with more than 2,000 US police and fire departments
Only two states— Montana and Wyoming— have no departments on the Ring program By Kim Lyons
All but two US states — Montana and Wyoming— now have police or fire departments participating in Amazon’s Ring network, which lets law enforcement ask users for footage from their Ring security cameras to assist with investigations, the Financial Times reported, Figures from Ring show more than 1,189 departments joined the program in 2020 for a total of 2,014. That’s up sharply from 703 departments in 2019 and just 40 in 2018.
The FT reports that local law enforcement departments on the platform asked for Ring videos for a total of more than 22,335 incidents in 2020. The disclosure data from Ring also shows that law enforcement made some 1,900 requests — such as subpoenas, search warrants, and court orders— for footage or data from Ring cameras even after the device owner has denied the request. Amazon complied with such requests 57 percent of the time, its figures show, down from 68 percent in 2019. ....
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