Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55778529

Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement - Divisions by zero

Law enforcement agencies will soon have easier access to footage captured by Amazon’s Ring smart cameras. In a partnership announced this week, Amazon will allow approximately 5,000 local law enforcement agencies to request access to Ring camera footage via surveillance platforms from Flock Safety. Ring cooperating with law enforcement and the reported use of Flock technologies by federal agencies, including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has resurfaced privacy concerns that have followed the devices for years.

Are there any knockoffs that aren’t cops?

I’d like to have one simply for the utility. But I don’t trust large American tech companies.

GitHub - openmiko/openmiko: Open source firmware for Ingenic T20 based devices such as WyzeCam V2, Xiaomi Xiaofang 1S, iSmartAlarm's Spot+ and others.

Open source firmware for Ingenic T20 based devices such as WyzeCam V2, Xiaomi Xiaofang 1S, iSmartAlarm's Spot+ and others. - openmiko/openmiko

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