Ring Cancels Its Partnership With Flock Safety After Surveillance Backlash (theverge.com)
- Reference: 0180785928
- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/13/0846202/ring-cancels-its-partnership-with-flock-safety-after-surveillance-backlash
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
> In a statement published on Ring's blog and provided to The Verge ahead of publication, the company said: "Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated. We therefore made the joint decision to cancel the integration and continue with our current partners ... The integration never launched, so no Ring customer videos were ever sent to Flock Safety."
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> [...] Over the last few weeks, the company has faced significant public anger over its connection to Flock, with Ring users being encouraged to smash their cameras, and some announcing on social media that they are throwing away their Ring devices. The Flock partnership was announced last October, but following recent unrest across the country related to ICE activities, public pressure against the Amazon-owned Ring's involvement with the company started to mount. Flock has reportedly allowed ICE and other federal agencies to access its network of surveillance cameras, and influencers across social media have been claiming that Ring is providing a direct link to ICE.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
It's not just that Flock works with police / ICE (Score:2)
The bigger issue is, it's become pretty obvious Flock gives these entities access to their cameras and images regardless of the existence of a warrant - and without getting permission from (or even notifying) the Flock customer who's paying for the camera.
okay so they don't partner with flock (Score:2)
They just sell direct
I mean they've got all the data they've got a brazilion computers to store and process that data.
What do they need flock for in the first place?
Smash their Ring cameras? (Score:2)
Earlier the previous evening, my Ring camera managed to capture the neighbor's teenager backing into my parked work van. Thanks to the camera, I've got timestamped footage footage of both the before and after. Now, you might be thinking to yourself "Surely they owned up to their mistake and you don't need surveillance footage?" Nope, the parent/guardian was extremely belligerent about the whole thing, with a main character attitude like their kid was just playing GTA and hitting a NPC's parked car is no
Re: (Score:2)
"We need these things because some people no longer do the right thing even when you've got them on video."
What for? If people don't give a fuck you might as well do without.
Corporate Speak (Score:1)
Ring said: "[...] we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated."
Translation: "We're gonna lose a ton of customers and then get our butts sued off by the ones that are left."
Re: (Score:2)
> Ring said: "[...] we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated."
> Translation: "We're gonna lose a ton of customers and then get our butts sued off by the ones that are left."
Reality: "Society is just a tad too concerned about privacy. That generation is dying off, so we'll try this shit again in 6 months. And then again in 6 months. And again. Soon, an ignorant society will see it our way."