{"id":145860,"date":"2025-10-17T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:50:10","slug":"ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Law enforcement agencies will soon have easier access to footage captured by Amazon\u2019s Ring smart cameras. In a partnership announced this week, Amazon will allow approximately 5,000 local law enforcement agencies to request access to Ring camera footage via surveillance platforms from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flocksafety.com\/\">Flock Safety<\/a>. Ring cooperating with law enforcement and the reported use of Flock technologies by federal agencies, including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has resurfaced privacy concerns that have followed the devices for years.<\/p>\n<p>According to Flock\u2019s announcement, its Ring partnership allows local law enforcement members to use Flock software \u201cto send a direct post in the Ring Neighbors app with details about the investigation and request voluntary assistance.\u201d Requests must include \u201cspecific location and timeframe of the incident, a unique investigation code, and details about what is being investigated,\u201d and users can look at the requests anonymously, Flock said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny footage a Ring customer chooses to submit will be securely packaged by Flock and shared directly with the requesting local public safety agency through the FlockOS or Flock Nova platform,\u201d the announcement reads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/10\/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/10\/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement agencies will soon have easier access to footage captured by Amazon\u2019s Ring smart cameras. In a partnership announced this week, Amazon will allow approximately 5,000 local law enforcement agencies to request access to Ring camera footage via surveillance platforms from Flock Safety. Ring cooperating with law enforcement and the reported use of Flock technologies by federal agencies, including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has resurfaced privacy concerns&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Law enforcement agencies will soon have easier access to footage captured by Amazon\u2019s Ring smart cameras. 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