Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Ring Sends the Police Your Nudes”.
Is there any good news this week? Um ring is giving police invasive user footage. I mean we’re. Not just talking like you know, porch Pirates need a reckoning and you got ta like catch these guys we’re talking last year. Um ring announced that at the end of this month, it will require new and existing users to buy a subscription for basic security features that used to be included with the purchase of the camera, including using the Ring app to arm and disarm security receiving notifications. When an alarm triggers or customizing the camera to record during an alarm, it was allowing police access to users cameras without a warrant or the owner’s consent, because the police claimed it was an emergency ring has also been repeatedly criticized for providing users footage to police.
Even when it has no legal obligation to do so ring claims that they carefully review all requests from law enforcement and ask for a revising warrants when the demands are inappropriate or overly broad. But last year, Michael Larkin, a ring user in Ohio with 21 cameras around his home in business, was asked by police to provide footage from his outside facing cameras to Aid in an ongoing investigation into a neighbor. He voluntarily gave them the footage from the time period. They requested the police then asked for all the footage from the day in question which he declined. The cameras record in short, bursts whenever there’s movement and would have taken a long time to download and send each file. The police then sent a warrant to ring requesting all of the footage from all of his cameras, which ring gave them, including footage from the three cameras inside his house and the 13 cameras at his business, which is a completely separate location. One of the cameras inside the home is located in his bedroom. Okay, what the am I the crazy person here, there’s a there’s, a discussion question said: should consumers ever trust a large company have access to their footage? At this point? No close circuit man Larkin only found out about this when ring sent him a notification that police had been given his footage, they didn’t request or otherwise push back on on the warrant or anything like that. They’Re, just like yep. Here’S footage from this guy’s bedroom. Hopefully you like watching videos of him banging yeah, unbelievable right yeah. No, it absolutely is.
I don’t know. We’Ve talked about this concept for a long time. We’Ve warned people about like doorbell stuff, like ring doorbells for a long time. This is why yeah we we, we did a couple sponsor spots with ring way back in the day.
I think that was like pre-amazon, acquisition and uh. I forget when it happened, but there was. There was like a fairly early incident where they were just handing over footage and we basically said look you guys need to change this policy or we’re not going to work with you anymore. Well, yeah.
We don’t work with ring anymore yep. There are solutions for this uh they’re, not quite as easy and they’re, not quite as cheap yeah, but there are solutions for this for doing it, yourself, um and unfortunately, that’s the the way it’s got to be. In my opinion, especially if you have the cameras inside your house, man like in the bedroom, I do have okay, I was about to be all judgy and say. Well, why would you have a camera in your bedroom in the first place? That’S stupid or something like that, but I mean okay, I don’t know, maybe they have pets and maybe their pets like to hang out in the bedroom, and they you know like to keep an eye on them for whatever reason like they could have health problems or You don’t know right, you never know what someone’s situation is yeah, maybe there’s a very good reason that they have Conrad what the heck man I personally use yuffie cameras in my bathroom. This is one of our developers. Surely you must know better he’s I mean he’s kidding, he’s 100 kidding yeah, okay, .