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Shaq Should Stop Working With Amazon’s Surveillance Company Ring
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling on Shaq to cancel his appearance at a police conference and to stop working with Ring.
36 Civil Rights Groups Demand End to Amazon’s Partnerships with Police
Over 30 civil rights groups are calling on local, state, and federal officials to end police partnerships with Ring, Amazon’s home surveillance company.
Ring Has Given ‘Active Camera’ Maps of Its Customers to Police
Several months before Ring donated 80 Ring doorbells to the Gwinnett County Police Department, Ring gave two maps of “active” Ring cameras in the county to police.
Amazon Is Looking More and More Like a Nation-State
Amazon is levying taxes on French businesses after France approved a tax on the tech giant.
Ring Says It’s Partnered With 405 Police Departments, Here’s What We Still Don’t Know
Ring said in a blog post that it’s partnered with 405 law enforcement agencies, after months of refusing to disclose this information to reporters. We still have a lot of questions.
Cities Asked Ring to Share ‘Registry Lists’ of Customers Who Bought Surveillance Cameras
Police want the names and addresses of people who own Ring cameras so they can tap into a private surveillance network.
Police Promised Witnesses Free Ring Surveillance Cameras If They Testified Against Neighbors
The police department of El Monte, CA started a “Ring Reward Program” about a month before it entered a partnership with Ring.
We're About to Learn How Bad Amazon’s Delivery Infrastructure Will Be for Workers
FedEx has cut ties with Amazon, which means that in the long term, Amazon will be doing more deliveries itself.
Ring Told People to Snitch on Their Neighbors in Exchange for Free Stuff
Ring helped people form private ‘Digital Neighborhood Watches’ where they report ‘suspicious activity’ in exchange for free Ring products and discounts, according to a presentation obtained by Motherboard.
Ring Partnerships With Police Are ‘Troubling,’ Home Security Lobbyists Say
Home security trade organization The Monitoring Association said that it is troubled by reports of Ring partnerships with law enforcement that are designed to promote Ring products.
New Map Reveals That At Least 231 Cities Have Partnered With Ring
An interactive map, researched and compiled as a personal project by an incoming college senior, gives the most comprehensive view of Ring’s partnerships with law enforcement to date.
Everything You Need to Know About Ring, Amazon’s Surveillance Camera Company
How does Ring partner with police? Are there privacy concerns with Ring doorbells? What is the Neighbors app? This, and other things we’ve learned from 1,800 pages of public records.