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Clarification: Amazon-Ring-Police story
Jul 13, 2022, 11:47 AM | Updated: Jul 14, 2022, 12:45 pm
FILE - a Ring doorbell camera is seen installed outside a home in Wolcott, Conn., on July 16, 2019. Amazon has provided Ring doorbell footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s permission, a revelation that’s bound to raise more privacy and civil liberty concerns about its video-sharing agreements with police departments across the country. The disclosure came in a letter from the company that was made public Wednesday, July 13, 2022, by U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
(AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
In a story published July 13, 2022, The Associated Press reported the non-profit digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation said the Los Angeles Police Department requested Ring footage of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. The story should have made clear the Electronic Frontier Foundation said those requests were made to Ring users.
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