Amazon’s surveillance camera maker Ring announced partnership on Thursday clusterMaker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with law enforcement.
Now, agencies using Flock can request users to ring share footage For assistance in “evidence collection and investigation work”.
Swarm cameras work by scanning license plates and other identifying information about the cars they see. Flock’s government and police customers can also perform natural language searches of their video footage to find people matching specific descriptions. However, AI-powered technology used by law enforcement has been proven to ruin racial prejudice,
On the same day that Ring announced this partnership, 404 media reported that ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy had access to Flock’s network of cameras. By partnering with Ring, Flock can access footage from potentially millions of other cameras.
There’s a long time in the ring bad track record With placing videos of customers Safe And SafeIn 2023, the FTC ordered the company to pay $5.8 million over claims that employees and contractors had unrestricted access to customers’ videos for years.
