Ring, the doorbell-camera firm, has partnered with 400 police forces, extending surveillance reach - The Washington Post

But legal experts and privacy advocates have voiced alarm about the company’s eyes-everywhere ambitions and increasingly close relationship with police, saying the program could threaten civil liberties, turn residents into informants, and subject innocent people, including those who Ring users have flagged as “suspicious,” to greater surveillance and potential risk. “If the police demanded every citizen put a camera at their door and give officers access to it, we might all recoil,” said Andrew Guthrie Fe

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