Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant

Posted by john_brown_body on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:25PM
from the vice.com dept.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kga3/amazon-is-coaching-cops-on-how-to-obtain-surveillance-footage-without-a-warrant

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Re:Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Foo... by sarcasmatwork on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:35PM (#20617891)

Coming from the same company that also listens to your conversations in your house via Alexa? Why do people still trust Amazon? Stop using Ring, and get another non-cloud device. Issue resolved.

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Re:Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Foo... by john_brown_body on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:35PM (#20619279)

No, this does not resolve the issue at all. The problem is not that police are accessing Ring footage against the will of the owners, the problem is that Ring users are complicit in constructing a surveillance panopticon that affects everyone else and has no mechanisms for preventing abuse.

Personally forgoing Amazon devices isn't the solution. There must be political action.

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