We’re the Only Ones Ringing Enough

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’s cooperation 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. [More]

Hey, if you have nothing to hide and haven’t done anything wrong, what’s the problem?

[Via Michael G]

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David Codrea is a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. View all posts by admin

3 thoughts on “We’re the Only Ones Ringing Enough”

OtG says:

October 20, 2025 at 5:12 pm

One might conclude that future sales of RING devices will include blanket permissions for data sharing without notice… and revisions to existing terms and conditions. There are 50+ houses on my street. At a guess, based on informal observation, 35 more or less have cams that together can watch all of our goings and comings. Traffic cams are also densely distributed.
Archer says:

October 20, 2025 at 7:29 pm

Doesn’t Flock Safety also blanket areas in automatic license plate readers, and sell the information on everyone’s comings and goings to any organization or person willing to pay the subscription fee? I’m pretty sure I just saw a video on that.

Oh, yes. I did, from “Hampton Law”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aM2e2fCyyE
DDS says:

October 21, 2025 at 5:43 am

There are reasons why no society on the planet routinely goes about stark naked. Think about it. Whether you’re born male or female, roughly half of humanity has something similar to what you do. So why hide it?

Because they’re your “private parts.” You get to decide who sees them and who doesn’t. It isn’t about whether or not you have something to hide. Its about the right to privacy, one of those “creator endowed” rights a bunch of old dead white guys nattered on about AD NAVSEAM.

Oh, yes. Shouldn’t leave this rather trivial part out.

” Fourth Amendment

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Long story short, RKBA is not a second class right, but neither is the right to privacy.

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