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Ring & Privacy

2019-02-17 18:38:29.296615+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The Intercept: Amazon’s Home Surveillance Chief Declared War on “Dirtbag Criminals” as Company Got Closer to Police. I think the article is a little overblown, but there are some issues worth thinking about.

Although Ring owners must opt in to the Neighbors program and appear free to deny law enforcement access to the cameras they own, the mere ability to ask introduces privacy and civil liberties quandaries that haven’t previously existed. In an interview with The Intercept, Matt Cagle, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, said “the portal blurs the line between corporate and government surveillance,” making it unclear where the tech initiative ends and constitutional issues begin. ..

Personally as soon as I connected my Ring cameras to my network I assumed all of that data was public, and their field of view is deliberately limited to places I don't mind having publicly visible.

Washington Post: The doorbells have eyes: The privacy battle brewing over home security cameras

Police want to register — and even subsidize — private security cameras. That’s just the start of the ethical challenges ahead.

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