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Here is a disturbing article about a secretive arrangement between Amazon, Ring, and police departments.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement
“The Lakeland, Florida police department is required to “encourage adoption” of Ring products as part of a secret agreement with the company.”
“The result of Ring-police partnerships is a self-perpetuating surveillance network: More people download Neighbors, more people get Ring, surveillance footage proliferates, and police can request whatever they want.”
This statement is so true:
“When really powerful companies, or police for that matter, are incentivized to find crime, they’re going to find it no matter what,” Gilliard said. “It’ll ultimately shift the definition of what is a crime and lead to over-policing in some ways. Frankly, [it’s] the broken windows style that tends to harm marginalized communities more.”
Amazon gives the police department access to Ring’s “Law Enforcement Neighborhood Portal” that shows the police all of the active Ring doorbell cameras in the area. It lets them interact with the camera owners directly. They can request captured footage for investigations without a warrant. A law professor quoted in the article points out that this can lead to due process violations. Police normally need warrants to collect digital video data (on a specific target who is subject to an investigation). Another said self-surveillance is potentially a form of government surveillance.
I think everyone should read this article, but perhaps especially any of you who use Ring Doorbell, or similar products that connect to a service provider’s servers over the internet. It is that connection to a service provider’s servers that enables this kind of collusion between the service provider and the police. In this case, it was all supposed to be secret. There was never any intent by Amazon / Ring to disclose the police partnership arrangement to product purchasers / service subscribers.
But something for all to consider about self-surveillance, even if the data you collect only goes to your SD cards or NVR or computer storage. The self-surveillance data you collect and store is but a step away from being obtained by law enforcement (e.g., by warrant).
@CR
Thanks for sharing that explosive article. It is a shame those offices are encouraging this through that particular entity. It’s pretty sad our world is coming to this. I wonder sometimes if there’s not someone behind the green curtain who is actually able to tap into a ring doorbell and see it in real time because we are so unaware.
So today the LOSER GOON SQUAD (SD Sheriff) came out to check for “compliance” on me and housemate.
NEITHER of us are on PAROLE/PROB
Loser cop talks all kinds of SHIT to housemate that If I dont come out they will come back with MORE than 2 of the goons from the goon squad club and bs about we will break the gate down etc…
housemate came in to get me I said NOPE and gave them Janic’s phone # (who instructed me a few years to NOT TALK to them DONT GOTO the door put your blinds down and IGNORE the SCUM….)
So below is VIDEO from my RING Doorbell…. Funny they will come back with MORE than them TWO ? i’m not impressed nor intimidated they CAN NOT DO ANYTHING, they DON’T HAVE A WARRANT, CANT GET ONE, and have NO AUTHORITY under the 290 code to even DO Compliance checks !(Mister PIGLET…. What penal code is your COMPLIANCE CHECK under ??)… NONE…. IT DOESN’T EXIST ! No one has reported a crime etc… Plain harassment ! (So what is like 10 cars or 10 PIGS gunna show up ? sounds like HARASSMENT TO ME!!) So I never went out, and will NOT go out.. I happen to be behind a LOCKED Gate on a BIG piece of property. One even says “THEY CAN GET THROUGH THE GATE” WTF for ? to see if a 290 is living here that you have NO AUTHORITY to even check on ?? These DEGENERATE SCUM like to CONTROL PEOPLE, DO DATA COLLECTION ETC… well my # is closed (CDCR) , NOT under LAME PAROLE/PROB and now they are butt hurt as they have no authority on this matter and I basically silently flipped them off… as they are POND SCUM ! REAL SIMPLE !
Anyways here is the RING DOORBELL VIDEO’s.
https://ring.com/share/6717615651689407729
https://ring.com/share/6717615939452216561
https://ring.com/share/6717616111250908401
https://ring.com/share/6717616652416787697
https://ring.com/share/6717617060438680817
“Level 3 sex offender loses parole for ‘pornography’ he says is from library, Netflix”
This is the problem with “child pornography” is that it gets used as a term awfully loosely. A Customs guy accused me of having “child pornography” after I came back from a trip to, I think it was Indonesia, because I had a single photograph on an sd card of a little boy and girl looking over their seat towards me sitting behind them on a bus or train and giggling. I realized then that there was no point in traveling with a camera ever again. They will claim that absolutely anything is C.P. There have been cases where excerpts from legal, widely-circulated motion pictures have been considered to be “C.P.” The government can claim that excerpts which focus their attention on a kid can rise to the level of pornography given the offense history of the person making or viewing the excerpt.
This is the slippery slope of the child porn laws and it’s impossible to tell what people have pled to over the years. I’m sure that a great deal would not meet the legal definition of illegal “child abuse material” were they to go to court. The problem is plea deals and prosecutors scaring the hell out of defendants to take them.
One of the most disturbing aspects of these laws is that they often are “status” crimes in which the criminal history of the individual is what can make the material “child pornography.” Scary!
https://13wham.com/news/local/level-3-sex-offender-loses-parole-for-pornography-he-says-is-from-librarynetflix
So update: 5:57P just took my drone out and up about 150′ did a recon of whole street not there ! haha Funny thing @AJ I haven’t watched much of the RING video but they must be STUPID AF NOT knowing that the RING records, Plus I actually have a 8CH DVR with 8 1080p CAMS all over (no audio) that records 24/7 LOL…..
Should be interesting if they come back with their whole INFANTRY as they told my roommate (I think that is in the last video)….
I noticed some gibberish hating on 290’s in that video ending 889
these F*CKS can ROT in hell, super unprofessional I wish I could enhance the audio to make it perfect and do a citizens complaint.
FL: Boo-hoo, looks who’s crying now! Poor thing is “under siege.”
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article233102457.html
Its come to my attention that there is now a special branch of the us marshals, the sex offender investigations branch. Their sole duties seemed to be looking only for snora violations.
Just an idea on labels …..
I prefer “PCOAO” (Person Convicted Of An Offense [pronounced “Pe-ko-uh”) or POCOSO (Person Once Convicted Of a Sexual Offense [if you feel it necessary to include the word “sex” in the description], [pronounced similar to the artist named “Picasso”].).
Both of those the acronyms serve multiple purposes. First, yes they identifies me as someone who was convicted of something. However, these acronyms suggests taking a moment to consider the many people who have similarly transgressed but have eluded conviction. Secondly, these acronyms are about something that happened – one occurrence, true enough, but clearly these acronyms are not a description of who you yourself are as an actual person – they refer to something that happened in the past. Period.
(For a further example, if I used an acronym like “P’WAAT” to describe a “Person With An Ankle Tattoo”, that really doesn’t tell you anything more about that person aside from that one small fact, does it? )
I made a happy discovery today. I googled my name and my face and name didn’t instantly show up.
I had contacted google as well as godaddy about my picture and private information being used on a website about 4 months ago.
The website, although it had a license until 2023 seems to have entirely disappeared.
Hopefully it was from contacting them about privacy concerns for my and my family’s safety.
Oh well only time will tell.
AJ Is there any way of discovering how many (if any) of the 10,834 arrests were for violations of the IML 21-day advance notice of foreign travel? There are apocryphal stories here about people being dragged off planes, but I haven’t seen any real evidence of that happening.
If one were to be arrested, when would that be? At CBP at the airport on arrival back in the US? Or a visit to your home at a subsequent date?
As I have written before, I am having an impossible time complying with the 21 day notice because both the Chicago Police Department and the Illinois State Police Sex Offender Unit tell me (repeatedly) that this is not the law in Illinois, that they will not accept a notice more than 3 days in advance of travel, and that I will be completely compliant if I follow the 3-day advance notice required in this state. It’s maddening.
Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us
torm the registry, They Can’t Stop All of Us
Some idea to have peaceful protest ?
Every time we go register is there a way we can “file an complaint in court?” base on what?
My idea is to somehow overload the system
Okay, how about?:
Person Registered for Apartheid
Person Registered for Apartheid and Harassment
Person Registered for Immoral, Illegal, Anti-American Apartheid and Harassment
I like them all. They capture the essence of the Registries.
Not talking politics, but after watching the democratic debate its interesting listening to candidates state illegal border crossing shouldn’t be criminally enforced it should be civilly enforced…. yeah, so, how do we get this “civil enforcement” instead of criminal enforcement?
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-07-30/patt-morrison-theane-evangelis-boise-homeless-los-angeles
Given this case, if shelters refuse registered offenders, would it be considered an 8th amendment violation?