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by rom-antics 1202 days ago
You mean due process? Sounds great, sign me up!
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Yeah, I don't think most people object to Ring video potentially being used by LE (I'm sure there are some though). I think the biggest complaint is the complete lack of due process and even the lack of notifying anyone when their footage is used.
US law enforcement is not to be trusted. Any data to which they have access is police abuse waiting to happen.
No. The article is about a failure of that exact system. Judges just sign search warrants for just about anything; the only thing they check for generally is that it's not involving the search of hundreds of people. Invading the privacy of 1-10 innocents is just a rubber stamp.
Yes, but obtaining footage directly from 10 different people is ten times more work than obtaining the same footage from a single source. That additional work increases friction and decreases (but certainly doesn't eliminate) the level of abuse that will happen.
Great point.