More than 2,000 police and fire departments in the US have now partnered with Amazon's Ring, with 1,189 new departments added over the past year
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Discussion
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@daveleeft
Dave Lee
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NEW: There are now more than 2,000 police and fire departments enrolled in Amazon's Ring camera network partner programme. Collectively those depts made more than 20,000 requests for footage. https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@jakeadampitre
Jake Pitre
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amazon has created a mass surveillance network in partnership with law enforcement & managed to get people to share adorable tiktoks of Ring-recorded delivery people doing something nice or whatever to make it seem benevolent. the future is so cool https://twitter.com/...
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@silvermanjacob
Jacob Silverman
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Amazon is creating a home surveillance network that partners closely with law enforcement. Maybe you don't need that Ring. https://twitter.com/...
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@rikefranke
Ulrike Franke
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The surveillance state helped by private actors. 😶 https://giftarticle.ft.com/...
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@davidlarter
David B. Larter
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I want out of this dystopia. https://www.ft.com/...
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@culturejedi
Malkia Devich-Cyril
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Oh, damn. Big tech = surveillance state. https://twitter.com/...
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@hoofnagle
Chris Hoofnagle
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FT: “More than 2,000 police and fire departments in the US have now partnered with Amazon's Ring camera system, doubling the size of the controversial surveillance network in the past year.” https://www.ft.com/...