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Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users | EFF (www.eff.org)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guarantee you that this is more of a cost cutting measure rather than Amazon being altruistic. They just laid off tons of people, and this is within that same train of thought.

[โ€“] Tangent5280 7 points 10 months ago

  • Hey Jeff, we don't have enough staff to answer all these police requests we're getting.

  • Alright, then don't. Put out a press release, and get our Amazon(TM) ministry of truth to put a positive spin on it.