Doorbell cameras like Ring give early warning of police searches, FBI Warned: Tool used by police has been turned against them
We’ve been warning readers about Amazon’s “Ring” doorbell. Sold as a way to [so] see who is at the door without getting up, or as a way to keep an eye on precious shipments from the Amazon mother ship, it has been used by police as a way to surveil neighborhoods. But the technology, like almost all tech, is doubled edged.
(From The Intercept)
The downside for police, who have rushed to embrace Ring usage nationwide as the Amazon subsidiary aggressively marketed itself to and sealed partnerships with local departments, is that networked cameras record cops just as easily as the rest of us. Ring’s cameras are so popular in part because of how the company markets their ability to detect motion at your doorstep, providing convenient phone alerts of “suspicious activity,” however you might define it, even when you’re out of the house. But sometimes the police are the unannounced, unwanted visitor: “Subjects likely use IoT devices to hinder LE [law enforcement] investigations and possibly monitor LE activity,” the bulletin states.
This article was originally posted here: https://www.ac2news.com/2020/09/doorbell-cameras-like-ring-give-early-warning-of-police-searches-fbi-warned-tool-used-by-police-has-been-turned-against-them/.
