From Neutral Guardians to Scripted Hawkers

Thanks to in-depth reporting from Motherboard, Gizmodo, CNET, and others, we comprehend a lot about the symbiotic relationship between Amazon’s Ring and nearby police departments, and how that relationship jeopardizes privateness and circumvents regulation.

At least 231 law enforcement businesses round the u . s . a . have partnered with Ring, a record by using Motherboard revealed. This partnership takes each a monetary and digital form.

Police that associate with Ring reportedly have get entry to to Ring’s “Law Enforcement Neighborhood Portal,” which permits police to see a map of the places of Ring cameras. Police may also then ask proprietors for get right of entry to to their footage—and when proprietors provide permission, police do now not want to accumulate a warrant.

The association is additionally financial. Amazon encourages police to motivate residents to set up the Ring app and buy cameras for their homes. Per Motherboard, for each and every city resident that downloads Ring’s Neighbors app, the nearby police branch receives credit towards shopping for cameras it can distribute to residents. This association makes salespeople out of what ought to be unbiased and depended on protectors of our civic society.

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