Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras

Re:Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream A... by throwaway69123 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @11:06PM (#25183472)

This is my take as well, what they have written is really dishonest. You could replace ring camera with mobile phone and make their same arguments and people would look at you like you are crazy.

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Re:Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream A... by sellyme on Sunday November 22, 2020 @11:23PM (#25183567)

> You could replace ring camera with mobile phone

Okay, let's do that:

> [paraphrasing] We've published an app that will live-stream your phone's camera to the police, you should use it.

...yeah, that actually seems worse to me.

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Re:Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream A... by throwaway69123 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @11:25PM (#25183575)

Some police departments already support video calls, no one cared.

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Re:Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream A... by Reelin on Monday November 23, 2020 @01:08AM (#25184025)

24/7 live stream != video call

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Re:Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream A... by throwaway69123 on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:24AM (#25184323)

Its not a 24/7 live stream you didnt read the article

> Lumumba said the city would only be able to access the devices when crimes occur in those areas.

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Re:Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream A... by boomboomsubban on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:36AM (#25184390)

It's still an available 24/7 live stream even if they aren't accessing it constantly.

Further, they haven't provided any details on how they will effectively control access, the area a crime would allow access to, how long the cameras could be accessed, or how they would handle false reports. Saying they won't abuse it isn't enough.

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