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Re:Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surve... by ehsankia on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:15PM (#21716017)
The article you link isn't a primary source, it links back to your previous CNET article, which explicitly says it's a heat map and specific location is not given. Welcome to shitty "tech" journalism playing the telephone game. You start with a pretty tame report, and 2-3 articles down the line, Ring is suddenly giving your new born baby to the government.

Nowhere in the original there's talk of giving user location, yet Yahoo someone starts talking of "detailed map of doorbell installation", for whatever definition of "detailed".

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Re:Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surve... by autoexec on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:04PM (#21717127)
From that CNET article:

"the heat map showed police where Ring cameras are concentrated: the darker the shade, the more the cameras. But when zoomed in, it would show light circles around individual locations,"

It also links to other cases where maps of cameras were sent to police by amazon such as the one shown here:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/29/ring-amaz...

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