Re:Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream A...
by lopmotr on Monday November 23, 2020 @12:35AM
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How would you propose Ring stops it? Change the T&Cs to disallow sharing your video with the police while still allowing sharing with your friends? What if a private company says it's your friend and collects it on behalf of the police? What if a group of vigilant neighbors want to pool all their videos together so their own volunteers or staff can monitor them? It's kind of hard to allow something for normal people while disallowing it for the police.
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Re:Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream A...
by alphabettsy on Monday November 23, 2020 @12:46AM
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Ring afaik doesn’t allow anyone live-stream access other than the owners and those directly added to the app. Now we’re talking about the ability to give the police department a livestream, something neighbors can’t currently do. They don’t have to build it.
Re:Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream A...
by lopmotr on Monday November 23, 2020 @01:29AM
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> and those directly added to the app
The article says this is just owners allowing access to the company that manages it for the police. How can Ring stop that?
Re:Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream A...
by alphabettsy on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:03AM
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I don’t know how else to explain to you that this is different functionality. When someone is added to the app they have complete control over your Ring, this is not the same thing.