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Amazon's Ring partners with company whose tech has reportedly been used by ICE.

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Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

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-- TechCrunch (@techcrunch.com) Oct 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM

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... 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. ...

A flock of privacy concerns

Outside its software platforms, Flock is known for license plate recognition cameras. Flock customers can also search footage from Flock cameras using descriptors to find people, such as "man in blue shirt and cowboy hat." Besides law enforcement agencies, Flock says 6,000 communities and 1,000 businesses use their products.

For years, privacy advocates have warned against companies like Flock.

This week, US Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter [PDF] to Flock CEO Garrett Langley saying that ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Secret Service, and the US Navy's Criminal Investigative Service have had access to footage from Flock's license plate cameras.

"I now believe that abuses of your product are not only likely but inevitable and that Flock is unable and uninterested in preventing them," Wyden wrote. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-19 12:54 AM | Reply

I understand that 'brown person' and 'non-white person' are also popular ICE searches.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-20 02:56 PM | Reply

Well yeah, they -everybody -should be workin against law enforcement...

---- havin laws and borders an ----

#3 | Posted by fishmarket at 2025-10-20 03:38 PM | Reply

Well yeah, they -everybody -should be workin against law enforcement...

---- havin laws and borders an ----

#3 | Posted by fishmarket

Everybody should be working against fascism. A lot of tech corps have chosen the fascism side.

#4 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-20 03:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

throwing away my Ring camera NOW

#5 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-10-20 03:45 PM | Reply

"Everybody should be working against fascism"
said the communist

'fascism' here means anyone not for 'anti fa' iow any noncommunist is by default a 'facist', duh it's right there in the name.

#6 | Posted by fishmarket at 2025-10-20 04:32 PM | Reply

Daddysfist's fellow nazis are spending a fortune on chemical weapons and guided missile warheads to use on American soil.

www.rawstory.com

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-20 04:36 PM | Reply

'fascism' here means anyone not for 'anti fa' iow any noncommunist is by default a 'facist', duh it's right there in the name.

#6 | Posted by fishmarket

Well yeah if you're not a fascism supporter you're automatically anti fascist.

Which one are you?

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-20 05:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

lmao... Trumpers having to rewrite Dictionary definitions to defend their obviously Fascist cult.

Fascism

www.google.com

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-20 05:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"Everybody should be working against fascism"
said the communist

You couldn't define communism if your life depended on it.

You're just an idiot using words you don't understand.


'fascism' here means anyone not for 'anti fa' iow any noncommunist is by default a 'facist', duh it's right there in the name.
#6 | POSTED BY ISHMARKET

Antifa literally means anti fascist.

It's understandable you're triggered by this.

The rest of your stupidity speaks for itself.

Trumpers are morons.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-20 05:53 PM | Reply

@#9 ... lmao... Trumpers having to rewrite Dictionary definitions to defend their obviously Fascist cult. ...

Looks that way.

It seems they are trying to rewrite history in order to control the future.


#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-20 05:53 PM | Reply

#10 | Posted by ClownShack
Say, how long did you have to bottom before needing diapers? I'm stupid, help me out here.

#12 | Posted by fishmarket at 2025-10-20 06:29 PM | Reply

#12
Did you make it to your teens before daddysfist turned you into goatse?

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-20 06:32 PM | Reply

Which one are you?

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

I'm nonbinary you bigot

#14 | Posted by fishmarket at 2025-10-20 06:34 PM | Reply

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

Hey can you send a plumber? The toilet's plugged up in here and overflowing!

-posted via crap-a-talk from hitler's head rentfree.

#15 | Posted by fishmarket at 2025-10-20 06:38 PM | Reply

Daddysfist aka Goatse is a nazi dirtbag.

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-20 06:41 PM | Reply

I'm nonbinary you bigot

#14 | Posted by fishmarket

When you can't denounce fascism, just joke about the gays like a true closeted self loathing homosexual.

#17 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-20 07:16 PM | Reply

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