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Amazon admits giving police Ring camera footage without consent

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Re: Amazon admits giving police Ring camera footage without consent

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What’s the point? Even if you have a great video of a dude stealing your packages nobody will arrest or do anything about it.

I used to have things stolen off my porch frequently. After installing a Ring camera, that ended immediately and never happened again. It did seem to work as a deterrent.

this is exactly why i added a fake camera in front of my door.

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Neither were your neighbors.

I haven't been offering my judgement or opinion to or on my neighbours. My judgement is on the device, and to be honest, I might well have installed one of these devices without realising how it may make others feel. The story about the cat was just a background line to give context for why I was calling on my neighbours, but it could be any number of reasons, I might even have been saying hello after moving into the…

It would have been better for local wildlife to take the stray cat to the pound, rather than just enabling it but letting it roam regardless.

I was against Ring cameras because of the privacy implications, but the neighbors that own Ring cameras being the ones that managed to avoid being interrogated about a "lost" stray cat is the most convincing argument in support of them that I can imagine.

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