Not sure what to think about this. From what I understand it is optional and opt-in and police can't view un-shared videos without requesting them but reading comments in hacker news it sounds like police are finding out who has ring devices and letting them know it's a good idea they sign up for it. I also saw this guy's comments about it.
"I see a lot of comments about how this is "opt-in". By definition, all of the videos that officers can see the existence of through this portal exist on Ring's servers, not on some individually-owned machine.
So if you decline to "share" your video with the police, they can just request it from Ring, who won't and can't decline to share. You won't be notified."
It seems like it can be helpful to solve crimes, but yet again at the expense of your privacy. I'm less likely to ever buy any ring products after reading this though.
https://www.officer.com/command-hq/...a-crime-information-sharing-app-neighborhoods
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18215168
"I see a lot of comments about how this is "opt-in". By definition, all of the videos that officers can see the existence of through this portal exist on Ring's servers, not on some individually-owned machine.
So if you decline to "share" your video with the police, they can just request it from Ring, who won't and can't decline to share. You won't be notified."
It seems like it can be helpful to solve crimes, but yet again at the expense of your privacy. I'm less likely to ever buy any ring products after reading this though.
https://www.officer.com/command-hq/...a-crime-information-sharing-app-neighborhoods
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18215168
