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Amazon’s Ring closing the door on police requests for footage without warrant
Ring is shutting down a programme that allowed police to easily obtain doorbell camera footage belonging to its customers
The idea behind it is to allow people living nearby to communicate with each other, another social community app, to create safer neighborhoods where individuals can help and get in touch with each other when it matters. As reported by Mashable, concerns have surfaced previously on a perceived close relationship between Ring and the law but the existing situation did provide transparency as you knew if police had attempted to see the footage. During 2022, Ring disclosed it handed over 11 videos to law enforcement without notifying customers due to “exigent or emergency” circumstances, one of the categories that allow it to release content but there is some ambiguity on what is or isn’t such a situation.
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