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• @Viss@mastodon.social @Viss@mastodon.social on mastodon

  wow, if you needed any more reason to not trust ring, holy shit.  —  https://www.politico.com/...

• @kashhill@mastodon.social @kashhill@mastodon.social on mastodon

  Fascinating story: https://www.politico.com/...  At first the police just wanted two hours of footage from this guy's doorbell Ring cam.  —  “It was just the beginning.  —  They asked for more footage, now from the entire day's worth of records. …

• @alfredwkng Alfred on x

  New: A Ring doorbell owner received a subpoena notice in December for all of the footage his cameras recorded on Oct. 25. That included his indoor cameras and cameras at his store. The investigation was on a neighbor next door. Ring handed it all over: https://www.politico.com/..…

• @eff @eff on x

  “It really takes the control out of the hands of the homeowners, and I think that's hugely problematic,” EFF's @lynch_jen told @politico. “In a warrant for electronic data, the account may have a nearly unlimited amount of data associated with it.” https://www.politico.com/...

• @profferguson Andrew G. Ferguson on x

  The privacy loophole in your doorbell. Over-broad warrants, weak standards of proof, and complicit corporate interests means you are only a warrant away from being surveilled. ⁦@alfredwkng⁩ with another must read. https://www.politico.com/...

• @bwest Brandon West on x

  If you have a Ring camera or doorbell you're a cog in the surveillance state https://twitter.com/...

• @kashhill @kashhill on x

  This is so fascinating, on what happens when police want the footage from all your Ring cams. (Spoiler: they get it.) https://www.politico.com/...

• @maggie_mcneill Maggie McNeill on x

  The “third party doctrine” pretends that if you allow any third party to facilitate your communication or information needs in any way, ALL of your data actually belongs to THEM, not you; therefore the government only need demand it from THEM, without your even being asked. https…

• @alfredwkng Alfred on x

  The judge who signed off on the warrant didn't respond for comments. The police department declined to comment, citing an active investigation. Privacy laws have exemptions for law enforcement requests. All the privacy protections failed here: https://www.politico.com/...

• @alfredwkng Alfred on x

  Over the years, Ring has received more and more warrants from police, and said it challenges them when they consider it an overreach. This warrant asked for everything, even though the owner had nothing to do with the case. Ring didn't challenge it: https://www.politico.com/... h…