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Welcome to Techsurvivors => Tech => Topic started by: gunug on August 06, 2019, 09:29:03 AM
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Having reinvented shopping Amazon now wants to reinvent community policing:
"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.
“Seems like you wasted no time sending out your video Request out to Ring Users which is awesome!!” a Ring “Partner Success Associate” told Maywood police."
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kga3/amazon-is-coaching-cops-on-how-to-obtain-surveillance-footage-without-a-warrant
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Sadly, I heard about this some months ago. The pursuit of profits knows no bounds. Greed seems to be the "Mission Statement" of most companies. The more personal data you create, the more it will be used against you. And yet, many folk keep saying "I have nothing to hide". Humans will do almost anything if they think they are getting some kind of benefit... regardless of how many people are damaged in the process.