{"id":217194,"date":"2022-07-14T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T14:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knowtechie.com\/?p=217194"},"modified":"2022-07-27T16:29:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T20:29:14","slug":"ring-giving-footage-to-police-without-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knowtechie.com\/ring-giving-footage-to-police-without-warrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring is giving your camera footage to police without a warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ring<\/a> has been giving out its users’ camera footage to law enforcement, even without the owners’ consent or a court-ordered warrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Amazon<\/a> subsidiary is apparently very friendly with law enforcement, giving out unwarranted user footage to cops at least 11 times this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This revelation comes from a recent report from Sam Biddle of The Intercept<\/a>.<\/em> The publication references a letter from Amazon in response to an interesting request from Senator Edward Markey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ MORE: Google and Amazon let police see your video without a warrant<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senator Markey sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy last month<\/a>, inquiring about Ring’s relationship with law enforcement. The letter expressed concern over Ring’s policies of recording both video and audio data from users’ cameras. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Markey asked Ring to commit to \u201cnever accept financial contributions from policing agencies,\u201d \u201cnever allow immigration enforcement agencies to request Ring recordings,\u201d and \u201cnever participate in police sting operations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, Amazon confirmed that Ring would not commit to any of Markey’s requests. Additionally, the company says it offers up camera data to police in an “emergency situation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has already shared 11 emergency requests with cops this year alone. And of course, Amazon failed to identify exactly what constitutes an emergency situation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRing makes a good-faith determination whether the request meets the well-known standard,\u201d reads the company’s statement. Sounds like a vague, blanket statement that doesn’t really say much at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But are we really that surprised? If we’re buying a security device from one of the largest internet companies in the world, we should probably expect them to be infringing on our rights, at least a little bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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