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Re:Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance by reaperducer on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @04:54PM (#18233163)
Do you have a source on that discount story? Because I'm not able to find one right now.

Not the OP, but my neighborhood's Nextdoor message board is filled with both Ring discounts, and pleas from the local PD for people to buy them. I have no proof that they're related, but if the marketing is being done through hyper-targeted methods like this, it might explain why it's not Googleable.

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Re:Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance by fixermark on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @06:19PM (#18233786)
I think I misunderstood OP's meaning. I though they were claiming the police were paying directly for video signal; it appears police or Ring are offering discounts to get the hardware in the belief that citizens will volunteer the video when the local police need help to stop a crime.
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