According to notes from an Amazon webinar, Ring has partnered with 200+ local police departments in US, which can directly ask Ring owners for camera footage
they show Ring told police that it's partnered with 200 law enforcement agencies around the country. https://www.vice.com/... Emanuel Eggberg / @emanuelmaiberg : More amazing reporting from @carolineha_. Officer takes meeting with Ring, takes notes on meeting, emails notes to self, Caroline foias email, and we have a number of Ring partnerships: https://www.vice.com/... @wewontbuildit : According to this article, Amazon is working with 200 police agencies to push Ring and its app Neighbors, which “has a problem with racial profiling”. This is just another example of our technology being deployed without regard for its effects. https://www.vice.com/... Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler : NEW: Amazon's surveillance company Ring has partnered with at least 200 local police departments in the US, forming a private, warantless surveillance network: https://www.vice.com/... Joe Rivano Barros / @jrivanob : Amazon's Ring has 200 partnerships w/law enforcement agencies around country the cops can get this video without a warrant, since they ask Amazon for it, not a judge so Amazon's now the one to decide when cops can track us from house to house https://www.vice.com/... Alfred / @alfredwkng : i thought i had found a lot of Ring partnerships when I discovered 50+ police departments working with the Neighbors app Amazon won't tell the public how many it's partnered with, but it'll tell police they're working with 200 law enforcement agencies https://www.vice.com/... Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor : Shouldn't be legal to do this secretly. https://twitter.com/...