Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
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Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

  • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    The only drawbacks to having actual security cameras is when you trust your data to a 3rd party known to use your data for evil.

    If you record things locally, there’s really zero drawbacks.

    • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Hypothetically the police could come with a warrant and force you to hand over the footage you recorded. It’s a higher barrier than if footage is being uploaded to the cloud, but it can still happen.

      And even if the cameras are not uploading their footage to the cloud, it still wouldn’t sit well with me if every other house has a camera pointed at the public street

      Where I live it is technically illegal to record the public street with an automated camera, but it’s not really being enforced. So there is Ring cameras everywhere.

      • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        If some shit went down that would require a warrant for the data then I’m guessing I’d probably know and be able to make copies or remove the data beforehand.

    • termaxima@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      That’s annoying (or at least, takes some work) to set up, and more expensive.

      Out of order cameras are basically (sometimes literally) free, need no wiring work, and don’t “accidentally” record any embarrassing / private moments you then have to delete !