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A look at Ring's Neighbors app, which lets users report local activity and forwarded 13,053 posts to the LAPD over two years, some about non-criminal behavior

A look at Ring's Neighbors, which lets owners report local activity; over 13K posts were forwarded to the LAPD in two years, some about non-criminal behavior

Lam Thuy Vo / The Markup :

Email: Serve Robotics, used by Uber Eats in Los Angeles, shared video filmed by one of its food delivery robots to the LAPD as part of a criminal investigation

US police app SweepWizard, built by ODIN, leaked data, including location and names, on officers, 5,770 suspects, and others due to a simple misconfiguration

SweepWizard, an app that law enforcement used to coordinate raids, left sensitive information about hundreds of police operations publicly accessible. Tweets: @justinhendrix , @dmehro , @matthewkeysli...

Documents show LAPD's new predictive policing effort is similar to surveillance programs PredPol and Operation Laser that were shut down amid public outcry

Johana Bhuiyan / The Guardian : Tweets: @fairtrials , @jmbooyah , @jmbooyah , and @jmbooyah Tweets: Fair Trials / @fairtrials : 📢Predictive policing tools rely on flawed datasets. They don't predict ...

Documents: LAPD directs its officers to collect social media information of every civilian they interview, including those not arrested or accused of a crime

Emails from 2016 show Ring provided ~100 LAPD officers with free devices or discount codes and encouraged them to promote its devices to fellow LAPD, the public

In a bid to bolster its claims as a crime-fighting tool, Ring deployed a tactic popular in the business world: influencer marketing.