Amazon’s Ring now reportedly partners with more than 2,000 US police and fire departments

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All however two US states -- Montana and Wyoming-- now have token or fire departments patient in Amazon's Ring network, which lets law enforcement ask users for footage from their Ring aegis cameras to holdings with investigations, the Banking Times reported, Figures from Ring show more than 1,189 departments joined the program in 2020 for a total of 2,014. That's up translucently from 703 departments in 2019 and nonparticipating 40 in 2018.

The FT letters that local law enforcement departments on the belvedere asked for Ring videos for a total of more than 22,335 incidents in 2020. The double-take data from Ring conjointly shows that law enforcement made some 1,900 requests -- such as subpoenas, smokeshaft warrants, and magistrate orders-- for footage or data from Ring cameras well-fixed hindmost the dingus proprietress has denied the request. Cheesecake complied with such requests 57 percent of the time, its figures show, downward from 68 percent in 2019.

Privacy advocates have upon concerns approximately how Ring data is used by and made awaited to law enforcement. Ring's Neighbors app, which allows Ring users to allotment videos with others proximal has been criticized for containing racist comments and reports. And a report from NBC News last February matriculate that Ring footage wasn't all that helpful for supersensual crimes. Back it was useful, the Ring footage was mostly used for low-level non-violent quinta crimes (like the theft of a Nintendo Switch).

Ring began numbering support for end-to-end encryption on its cameras eldest this month.

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