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Re:Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance by monocasa on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:39PM (#18231401)
It's way more complex than that. For instance here the evidence from a webcam filming from a public vantage point was struck down.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/cops-illegally-n...

I've also seen SCOTUS rulings that they see a difference between public ancillary recordings, and mass surveillance of all public actions.

Re:Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance by joering2 on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:48PM (#18231473)
Great example +1; however in this example cops assumed Mr. Vargas to commit crime and hence setup cam to watch aka surveillance his property 24/7. Very difference from situation where average citizens records their front yard 24/7 not expecting or assuming a crime will occur, and then having that video being obtained when the crime happens.

In other words, this case is about active surveillance, versus Ring cams are more passive (record everything all the time for no specific reason)

Re:Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance by balls187 on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @02:37PM (#18231968)
Ring is marketed as a security camera, and one of it's primary use cases is providing video recording in the event of a crime.
Re:Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance by joering2 on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:00PM (#18258106)
Exactly! Not marketed as a tool to surveillance your neighbor 24/7.