"We don't need no stinking permission."
Posted on 08/06/2019 4:22:20 PM PDT by ransomnote
When police partner with Ring, Amazon’s home surveillance camera company, they get access to the “Law Enforcement Neighborhood Portal,” an interactive map that allows officers to request footage directly from camera owners. Police don’t need a warrant to request this footage, but they do need permission from camera owners.
Emails and documents obtained by Motherboard reveal that people aren’t always willing to provide police with their Ring camera footage. However, Ring works with law enforcement and gives them advice on how to persuade people to give them footage.
Emails obtained from police department in Maywood, NJ—and emails from the police department of Bloomfield, NJ, which were also posted by Wired—show that Ring coaches police on how to obtain footage. The company provides cops with templates for requesting footage, which they do not need a court warrant to do. Ring suggests cops post often on Neighbors, Ring’s free “neighborhood watch” app, where Ring camera owners have the option of sharing their camera footage.
"I have noticed you have been posting alerts and receiving feedback from the community,” a Ring representative told Bloomfield police. “You are doing a great job interacting with them and that will be critical in increasing the opt-in rate.”
“The more users you have, the more useful the information you can collect,” the representative added.MORE AT LINK
Noooothing risky about a ginormous CIA Cloud Computing contract with a company eager to teach cops how to avoid the law, right?
NOPE..!
“Police don’t need a warrant to request this footage, but they do need permission from camera owners.”
Not really avoiding the law, is it?
LE never needs a warrant to request something, for Petes sake.
They damn well do need a warrant to seize it without permission.
Sorry, my snark was meant for the nitwit who wrote this article.
Time to seize their assets and arrest their executives.
I think you make an excellent point, there.
I have to agree.
"We don't need no stinking permission."
Heck, half the time, if it weren't for sharing videos online, the local police would do absolutely nothing (worried that yet another multi-million dollar judgment will come down against the tiny town I live in for ‘harassing’ homeless by arresting them for crimes they're committing.)
The Federal government, through Stanford University, has apparently been involved from the start in weaponizing Facebook.
The Federal government, through Stanford University, has apparently been involved from the start in weaponizing Facebook.
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yes! I have a meme on my computer (somewhere) showing that Facebook was launched the day the Pentagon pretended to kill their LifeLog program. In reality - Lifelog IS Facebook, just in the public realm for the deep state to use to collect every detail of our lives for later “use.”
ALEXA SEX BAN Amazon forced to give Alexa users the option to stop staff listening to recordings of them having sex
Daniel Jones, Consumer Editor
7 Aug 2019, 1:28Updated: 7 Aug 2019, 1:29
AMAZON finally gave its Alexa users the option to block recordings of them having sex.
It came after we revealed last week that staff have regularly listened in when smart speakers pick up private conversations and other, saucier activities.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9668543/amazon-alexa-sex-recordings-ban/
I took no offense!
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