Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests

Re:Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enf... by anigbrowl on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:50PM (#21348509)

You'd have to find it first. Burglars tend to want to be in and out quick, as opposed to combing the house for all electronic storage devices. OK, if you get burglarized by professional spies or secret police they'll probably find it, but I'd venture to say in that case you have bigger problems than an Amazon Ring is going to help you with.

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Re:Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enf... by paxys on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:42PM (#21349501)

Someone could have burned down your house. Data could have been corrupted for any unrelated reason. Any physical storage could be confiscated by law enforcement for any reason (maybe there is incriminating evidence against them).

There are LOTS of reasons why you'd want redundant off-site backup.

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Re:Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enf... by __david__ on Thursday October 24, 2019 @06:53PM (#21350014)

Those caveats are still enough for me to want on-premises storage for my cameras. Your examples honestly seem like unlikely edge cases compared to wholesale privacy intrusion by data center hacks or Ring just deciding to give your footage to police. It shouldn't even be possible for Ring to share images/videos from your camera if it were designed correctly.

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