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Re:Mozilla letter to Amazon Ring: stop sharing information w... by contravariant on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:02AM (#23790222)
Hurting someone's privacy is in and of itself harm. Allowing law enforcement unrestricted access exacerbates this problem, however even without that I've already seen quite a few videos (made by ring cameras, or similar) posted, usually without any attempts at anonymization.
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Re:Mozilla letter to Amazon Ring: stop sharing information w... by AdamJacobMuller on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:29PM (#23793198)
The access is hardly unrestricted.

Once a verified LEO organization partners with Ring, they can send a geographically and time limited request to Ring for footage.

"please send me all video footage from 123 possum street to 350 possum street from midnight to 3am yesterday"

Ring then identifies who has cameras that may be of interest and sends the owners a request to share footage, which the owners can ignore (deny), explicitly deny or choose to share video.

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