Originally published at: Amazon admits police get Ring camera footage without owners' consent | Boing Boing
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The company also requires police to fill out a special “emergency request form” if there is an urgent need to bypass the normal law enforcement process, according to the letter.
I wonder if they can actually produce this supposed form, and under what possible circumstances they would deny the police.
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While it’s very interesting to know what product @beschizza is using [1] the problem isn’t a local one – I can’t make it aw better by barring Ring products from my own premises [2]. The problem is all my neighbors with Rings, who aren’t reading Boingboing and who are promiscuously spewing video (of me) to anyone with a badge who says “gimme”.
[1] Well not very interesting. Slightly interesting?
[2] My solution to this problem is that I have a doorbell, consisting of a mechanical switch connected to a ringy-dingy thingy [3], and a window in the door, that I can look out of. I realize people’s needs vary but for my own uses, I can’t imagine what benefit would accrue from video recording my front porch 7x24.
[3] Now I will go outside and yell at clouds.
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“…and that users have no say in the matter”
Sure they do.
Don’t install the damned thing
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Ok, but your “solution” only works if you stay inside all of the time and outside of the neighbors’ camera range…
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Yeah, I should have specifically said that up front. Oh wait I did.
No, you didn’t. Then you finished by saying you were going outside.
Your solution sucks.
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Guess I been told.
See, that was an allusion to an apparently-less-well-known-than-I-thought reference, viz https://images.app.goo.gl/31eBP4Ba6pmetZcm8
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Doubtful.
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There’s a door with a Ring doorbell on my way to work. Every time I walk past it, it makes me uncomfortable to know that someone has access to my entire schedule of coming and going, the days I was late to work and the ones where I brought cake for my coworkers.
And there is absolutely nothing I can do about it.
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15 mins of internet celebrity. Just look at all the pieces of ringaganda posted on BoingBoing
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You don’t have access to a paper bag (to put over your head) and a can of paint?
… naw, I wouldn’t do that either.
Use the environment. It might not look very dignified, and you might arrive for work covered in leaves; but it will keep you out of frame.
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…or a gorilla mask.
But seriously, that is just beyond fucked, and Dr F is one of zillions dealing with that.
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