News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Amazon's Ring to Stop Letting Police Request Doorbell Video from Users. Parent comment

Re:Amazon's Ring to Stop Letting Police Request Doorbell Vid... by ijhuygft776 on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:16PM (#39119848)
They will still be able to access the data... using secret laws this time.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon's Ring to Stop Letting Police Request Doorbell Vid... by quirk on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:33PM (#39120063)
Yes this is the weird part. Since this activity was always voluntary, I wonder about the real reason for this policy change.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon's Ring to Stop Letting Police Request Doorbell Vid... by psunavy03 on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:28PM (#39119993)
Going to a judge for a warrant is not a "secret law." The intelligence community is legally barred from collecting on US persons anyway, and they also DGAF about petty crime, because they have more important national security-related fish to fry.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon's Ring to Stop Letting Police Request Doorbell Vid... by smolder on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:04PM (#39120540)
> The intelligence community is legally barred from collecting on US persons

Only for their made-up definition of the word "collecting", which in some cases is "retrieving the data which we have already collected and stored".

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon's Ring to Stop Letting Police Request Doorbell Vid... by paxys on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:44PM (#39120221)
We are taking about a random local cop here, not the NSA.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon's Ring to Stop Letting Police Request Doorbell Vid... by ijhuygft776 on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:47PM (#39120272)
You obviously haven't heard about parallel construction (or evidence laundering)....
[ Parent | on HN ]