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Ring steps back from sharing video with police — mostly
Police can still get footage without a warrant in emergencies.
However, Ring adjusted its policy in 2021 to require police to publicly request clips in the Neighbors app from users living in a specific area, rather than contacting people privately. “Now, Ring hopefully will altogether be out of the business of platforming casual and warrantless police requests for footage to its users,” Matthew Guariglia, senior policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says in a statement. “We are also still deeply skeptical about law enforcement’s and Ring’s ability to determine what is, or is not, an emergency that requires the company to hand over footage without a warrant or user consent.”
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