Amazon admits to providing Ring footage to police without consent
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In a letter made public by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) admitted to providing footage from Ring doorbells to law enforcement sans permission.

The Senator excoriated the tech giant for violating the privacy of customers and contributing to pervasive surveillance of citizens across the country. To illustrate his point, he printed a full letter response from Amazon (AMZN) to his requests for information on law enforcement access to Ring footage.

âRing has provided videos to law enforcement in response to an emergency request only 11 times,â the letter read. âIn each instance, Ring made a good-faith determination that there was an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to a person requiring disclosure of information without delay.â

Amazon (AMZN) added that its subsidiary reserves the right to hand over footage in the event of âurgent law enforcement requests for information in cases involving imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to any person.â

However, Markey argued that even this case constitutes a violation of privacy, which is in need of protection. As such, he used the letter as a springing-off point to promote the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act that could impact the business.
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