It's plain not true, Amazon has shared information with the police, but they don't make money from it. It's also not large-scale with only 11 requests in 2022.
There are plenty of reasons to dislike Amazon, no need to invent one:
> Ring says it will only "respond immediately to urgent law enforcement requests for information in cases involving imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to any person." Its policy is to review any requests for assistance from police, then make "a good-faith determination whether the request meets the well-known standard, grounded in federal law, that there is imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requiring disclosure of information without delay."
The original claim in this thread wasn’t related to adverts, it was that data was sold to the police. Isn’t the reality worse, they just give it to the police?
> Neighbors, which has millions of users, is advertised as a way to receive “real-time crime and safety alerts” from local law enforcement and other Neighbors users nearby. A Ring camera isn’t required to use the app. In cities where police have partnered with Ring, police officers have access to a special law enforcement portal, through which the officers can request access to Ring footage. They can choose a date, a time, and a location on a map, and Neighbors users with cameras in the vicinity are alerted.
>It's also not large-scale with only 11 requests in 2022.
We should definitely take Amazon at their word here. Such a trustworthy company should be given the benefit of the doubt. We don't need to be able to audit these claims. Amazon said it, and therefore it is fact!
There are plenty of reasons to dislike Amazon, no need to invent one:
> Ring says it will only "respond immediately to urgent law enforcement requests for information in cases involving imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to any person." Its policy is to review any requests for assistance from police, then make "a good-faith determination whether the request meets the well-known standard, grounded in federal law, that there is imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requiring disclosure of information without delay."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/07/amazon-finally-a...