[fitblipper]

Ring doorbells providing this information to law enforcement quickly and easily is working as intended and is part of the reason it exists at all. Amazon has even used police to sell the doorbells arguing it provides better security [1].

It is great that the people who had their video data provided to law enforcement were notified after the fact in this situation. I wonder how many people never find out due to national security letters not allowing it.

[1]https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-polic...

[IncandescentGas]

> I wonder how many people never find out due to national security letters not allowing it.

There's an annoying thought. Amazon could be providing a live feed of every ring device directly to an aggregated intelligence data center, while being legally prevented from revealing that fact by a national security letter. Seems inevitable, and anybody buying a ring device should assume it as likely.

Imagine the boon of having indexed facial, gait and voice recognition feeds recorded and stored for eternity covering a significant portion of residential and business locations.

[mywittyname]

Presumably this evidence will eventually come to light through court proceedings. I'm not talking like one huge case, but through thousands of inconsequential small cases where an effort is not made to hide the data origin.

[JohnFen]

> Presumably this evidence will eventually come to light through court proceedings.

Probably not. Great effort is made to hide the use if NSLs. Instead, they engage in "parallel construction" -- reverse engineering a different way of getting the evidence they've collected, so they can use the evidence in court without revealing the NSL.