Did you know about this side of Ring? Ring (which is part of Amazon who also owns Alexa devices that can communicate with Ring) encourages neighborhoods to work together with local law enforcement using their cameras to make everyone safer. Videos recorded by the Ring cameras are sent to a huge database for safekeeping.
Michael Larkin joined his neighborhood watch and one day was asked to by police to review his video to help them with a drug investigation of one of his neighbors. He spent a lot of time looking into it and noted a suspicious car showing up more than you'd expect. He provided the video to the police. The police requested more and more but he started to balk due to the amount of (unpaid) time it was taking to do all this. So the police convinced a judge to sign a search warrant for ALL of his Ring cameras--not just the one facing the street but those inside his house and at his place of business at a different location. And they don't give the warrant to Mr Larkin, they go straight to Ring to have them turn over all of the footage.
They don't need a wiretapping warrant anymore to spy on people. They just let us do it ourselves and then find some back door method of getting the video. Crazy.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...rbell-00084979