{"id":47529,"date":"2022-07-14T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/33630\/Amazon-Handed-Doorbell-Cam-Ring-Data-To-US-Police-11-Times-So-Far-In-2022.html"},"modified":"2022-07-14T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T14:15:46","slug":"amazon-handed-doorbell-cam-ring-data-to-us-police-11-times-so-far-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/amazon-handed-doorbell-cam-ring-data-to-us-police-11-times-so-far-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Handed Doorbell Cam Ring Data To US Police 11 Times So Far In 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated<\/span> Amazon’s home security wing Ring turned over footage to US law enforcement without permission from the devices’ owners and seemingly without a warrant 11 times so far in 2022.<\/p>\n

Though the internet giant has a policy that police generally cannot view recordings without owners’ consent, that safeguard can be overridden with court orders and emergency requests \u2013 and it was through 11 emergency requests that Amazon gave the cops people’s video data, without permission and no indication of a warrant. What constitutes an emergency request is left up to Ring itself, too.<\/p>\n

“In 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,” Amazon’s vice president of public policy Brian Huseman told Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) in a written response<\/a> [PDF] to a list of surveillance-practice related questions<\/a> submitted in June.<\/p>\n