• Amazon releases Ring videos without consent. Should you care?

    Posted on August 1, 2022 at 02:44 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    PUBLIC DEFENDER

    Brian Livingston

    By Brian Livingston

    Giant retailer Amazon.com, the parent company of Ring video and audio doorbells and other devices, admits in a letter to a United States senator that it sometimes releases recorded files to law-enforcement agencies without a court-ordered warrant or the consent of the recording’s owner.

    In response to a request for information from Sen. Edward Markey (Democrat of Massachusetts), Amazon vice president for public policy Brian Huseman revealed: “Ring has provided videos to law enforcement in response to an emergency request only 11 times” in the first half of 2022.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.31.0, 2022-08-01).

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