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Thread: Is Amazon's Surveillance Machine Secretly Infiltrating Police Departments? "RING" is cool for you, but more COOL for BIG TECH and BIG

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Is Amazon's Surveillance Machine Secretly Infiltrating Police Departments?

by Tyler Durden
Sun, 08/25/2019 - 16:35

Authored by Eta Onrish via The Organic Prepper blog,

Big Tech has come under fire quite consistently for privacy concerns and has even faced big fines for violations (which they can afford). It seems that public attention on this matter has forced them to start going underground, with secret back-end deals with the government at local levels to expand their surveillance capabilities.
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Using Ring to expand a surveillance network

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...According to Jamie Siminoff, Chief Inventor and Founder of Ring,

“At Ring, we come to work every day with the mission of reducing crime in neighborhoods. Over the past few years we have learned that, when neighbors, the Ring team and law enforcement all work together, we can create safer communities. Neighbors is meant to facilitate real-time communication between these groups, while maintaining neighbor privacy first and foremost. By bringing security to every neighbor with the free Neighbors app, communities can stay on top of crime and safety alerts as they happen.”
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According to this article, ( [link to www.vice.com (secure)] )
Everything You Need to Know About Ring, Amazon’s Surveillance Camera Company

How does Ring partner with police? Are there privacy concerns with Ring doorbells? What is the Neighbors app? This, and other things we’ve learned from 1,800 pages of public records.

By Caroline Haskins
Aug 8 2019, 9:00am
 Quoting: Vice.com article:


“Ring, Amazon’s home security company most known for its doorbell camera, has been quietly creating a massive private surveillance network. The company has formed partnerships with at least 225 law enforcement agencies, enticed cities to finance discounts on its cameras with taxpayer money, and worked with police to organize package theft sting operations in several U.S. cities.”

This portal not only gives the government backdoor access to the Neighbors app to directly contact users, they also have a map of all cameras in the area that they can access.

But it gets worse.

Using police departments to help expand the network
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Here is an example of one, obtained by an investigator/staff writer at motherboard:

and from obtained correspondence to that same police department,

“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.

But they also stipulate,

Ring requests to look at press releases and any messaging prior to distribution to ensure our company and our products and services are accurately represented.”

The agreement also requires Ring and the Lakeland Police to coordinate on all public communications regarding their partnership.

“The parties shall agree to a joint press release to be mutually agreed upon by the parties,”

Motherboard/Vice also found this is isn’t limited to Lakeland, stating it found similar requirements in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Frisco, Texas.

Ring also is telling the local agencies to create roles in their departments to facilitate the communication with itself and control the information to the public, presumably to help expand the network, with five created roles:

Partnership Point of Contact
With Ring
1. Press/Media Coordinator- to coordinate PR with Ring

2. Social Media Coordinator- to coordinate the department’s social media with Ring

3. Investigative Coordinator- the point of contact that they can work with to “ensure maximum participation and sharing of video.”

4. Community Relations Coordinator- A person to oversee the team at community events
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Bypassing your rights
Keep in mind that this video footage that you’re recording for your own use can be taken by law enforcement via a warrant, but Ring/Amazon is also coaching the agencies on how to influence people to give up the information willingly.
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According to an article on The Intercept ( [link to theintercept.com (secure)] ), regarding a police-only video,

The video ends on an eerie note, adding that “in future versions we will also be enabling Ring’s smart search functionality that will allow for suspicious activity detection and person recognition.” What constitutes “suspicious activity” is anyone’s guess, as is how Ring will “detect” it.

Also according to the article, Matt Cagle, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California believes it. According to the article he says, it…

gives law enforcement “coercive power over customers” by virtue of its design. “Many people are not going to feel like they have a choice when law enforcement asks for access to their footage.”

Cagle goes on to say:

“Consent here is a smokescreen. Folks online consent to policies all the time without being meaningfully explained what is happening with our data, and the stakes are much higher here: Under guise of consent, this could invite needless surveillance of private lives.”

If you agree, there is something you can do about it. Fight for the Future is running a campaignspecifically to stop this collusion. According to the petition:

Amazon is building a privately run, for-profit surveillance state—and they’re getting local police to market it for them in exchange for VIP access to Amazon’s on-demand surveillance system

AMAZON’S HOME SURVEILLANCE CHIEF DECLARED WAR ON “DIRTBAG CRIMINALS” AS COMPANY GOT CLOSER TO POLICE
Sam Biddle
February 14 2019, 12:25 p.m.
 Quoting: The Intercept: article


Well, THAT was a DISTURBING READ.....

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