“Ring” For Law Enforcement?

If you have been to one of our recent presentations, you’ll find our new favouriate demonstrator: The Ring Doorbell. It is one piece of cool tech, all fitted with motion sensors and an HD camera, and with full remote alerting. But, if someone hacks your account, you may be in for trouble! This happened with the Mirai bot, and where 100s of thousands of CCTV cameras, and which took down Facebook in the US for several hours.

Send-in Law Enforcement

But, of course, the other big user of the Ring door bell could be law enforcement, as the alerts and video could be used to trace criminal activity. It has already been alleged that Ring had been sharing videos with over 600 law enforcement agencies in the US. Also, in the US, law enforcement can request up to 12 hours of video footage within one mile of a suspect area, and for up to 45 days. When you sign up to Ring you also can subscribe to the Neighours App, and receive messages such as:

For this Ring will respond to a request from law enforcement for video footage around an incident, such as:

“Car set on fire in Morningside on 4 March 2020 at 8pm. Could you send your footage to…