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Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police (www.yahoo.com)

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[–] Tee_in_a_Skee_Mask@forum.guncadindex.com 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

i believe you would have to opt in to share that info with police. im not 100% of course because im only speaking with the limited knowledge i have from videos on Flock, but they do say that each person/town/whatever that joins the network has to manually choose to share the info with the boys. it could just have to be amazon saying 'yes', im not sure, def something to look into

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They say that, but I can almost guarantee you the feds get direct access without asking and keep it a secret, because that's how tech companies do things in general. Flock cameras/data is openly used to provide a combined search of all cameras, this partnership implies Ring is going to go further in that direction too.

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah they can just say "patriot act" basically

[–] this@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Yea fr though. What if my city/county/state government wants to opt in and I don't want that?

[–] BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In addition to likely not giving a fuck, in jurisdictions with more sense than the USA, they can get warrants.