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_5xvion Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand Over Data 300 Times

sorry thought you were commenting on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18215168

_5xvion Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand Over Data 300 Times

That's not how it actually works in practice. this is the feel good video representing the most positive version of this type of transaction. ring police portal is not only deployed in America but also in the Middle East. Not everyone who signed up for a cool doorbell gadget, paying for the service to store your videos, expected it would be used for mass surveillance.

This is how China operates. The police merely 'request' footage before an owner hands it over right?

Either way this shouldn't be deployed with our law enforcement because it's fundamentally not a secure application. It's not encrypted, there are no controls in place for need to know for access to make these civilian requests and can be hacked by an 11 year old. Police didn't buy this product or ask for it on the market....Ring just gave it to them...from the ukraine.

thats weird.

_5xvion Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand Over Data 300 Times

Amazon provides government there own portal to view the video footage via an app. SO at least google makes the government ask before handing it over...Amazon gives it to them plus the upset on their facial recognition tech.

See their marketing video to police on the portal here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x83gyclt497fi8t/Ring%20Neighborhoo...