It turns out that Ring under Amazon has signed a 'contract to provide products for free instead of promoting surveillance cameras' with the police
19-4563 Emails Binder B, Final --DocumentCloud
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20485679-19-4563-emails-binder-b-final/
Emails from 2016 Show Amazon Ring's Hold on the LAPD Through Camera Giveaways | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/emails-show-amazon-rings-hold-lapd-through-camera-giveaways
Ring is a company that develops doorbells with surveillance cameras acquired by Amazon in 2018, and is working to provide police with images taken by surveillance cameras, but this relationship between Ring and the police is a privacy infringement. There are also criticisms.
How did Amazon's 'Ring' doorbell with a surveillance camera become popular? --GIGAZINE
Then, at the request of the California authorities, Ring asked the Los Angeles Police Department to promote the product from the more than 2000 pages of 'email exchanged between the Los Angeles Police Department and Ring in 2016'. It turned out that the product was offered free of charge in return.
When I checked the contents of the email sent from Ring to the Los Angeles Police Department, 'You reached Gold status because you introduced Ring's coupon code to 10 people.' 'When you introduced the coupon code to 25 people, you reached Platinum status.' Along with the statement, 'You can do it,' it states that products such as 'Ring Video Doorbell' and 'Stick Up Cam' will be offered free of charge.
In another email, a Los Angeles Police Department official said, 'I love Ring's doorbells. I recommend Ring's products to everyone I meet,' Ring told the Los Angeles Police Department. In return for the free product offer, you can see that they were asking for product promotion.
Regarding the relationship between the Ring and the Los Angeles Police Department, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said, 'When people meet police who urge residents to install surveillance cameras, they are either working out of safety concerns or receiving free equipment. 'I don't know if I'm working in the police department.' 'I express concern that civil servants are using their position for private gain and fueling the fear and suspicion of the community.' In addition, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has submitted a letter to the Attorney General of California requesting an investigation into the relationship between Ring and the Los Angeles Police Department.
In addition, the spokesman of the Ring is technology-related media · The Verge against, 'Ring, nothing has stopped the promotion of products to donations and the police to law enforcement agencies before the year' and comments have been ..
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