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Hey do you have a Ring security cameras? Well Ring might be getting ready to sell your video to a private company!

Amazon Ring security cameras moving deeper into law enforcement with Flock Safety, Axon deals

CNBC

By Eric Rosenbaum

Oct 16 2025

Key Points

• Flock Safety is teaming up with Amazon’s Ring Security to offer the public and law enforcement a new way to share video footage that can assist in crime investigations.
• It’s the second recently announced deal bringing Ring security camera footage more deeply into police work, and allowing citizens to opt-into sharing their cam footage, with Axon Enterprise also teaming up with the Amazon company.
• Public debate over crime levels and law enforcement technology remains divisive, but Flock Safety CEO and founder Garrett Langley tells CNBC his approach is simple: “Everyone has the right to be safe and people should be held accountable if they commit a crime.”

Amazon’s Ring security cameras are moving deeper into law enforcement work in a new deal with Flock Safety that will allow citizens who own Ring cameras to share footage that can assist in crime investigations, making the video available to law enforcement that use Flock’s software.

It’s the second recent deal bringing the Amazon Ring security tech into the law enforcement market in new ways, with Ring also recently announcing a similar effort with Axon Enterprise

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Flock, a direct Axon competitor, works with an estimated 6,000 communities and 5,000 law enforcement agencies, and sees a “long tail” for the tech in the public safety sector with an estimated 17,000 cities across the U.S., according to its CEO and founder Garrett Langley.

Big Brother is watching you...

Realty group’s plan to install plate readers in Brookline sparks privacy concerns

The ACLU of Massachusetts warns that the surveillance technology could expose residents’ movements far beyond the town’s borders.

Boston.com

By Beth Treffeisen

October 17, 2025

Chestnut Hill Realty is installing Flock license plate reader cameras along Independence Drive, on the border of South Brookline and West Roxbury, citing a rise in package and retail theft. However, the move has alarmed civil liberties advocates, who warn that the technology poses a greater threat than petty crime.

The ACLU of Massachusetts says the cameras — marketed as neighborhood safety tools — enable broad government surveillance by collecting data on everyone’s movements, not just those suspected of wrongdoing.

Kade Crockford, director of technology for the Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts, says government agencies, in this case working with private companies, are building massive databases to track people’s movements across cities, states, and the nation.

Big Brother in this case is a private company is selling your privacy data.

Murphy says privacy is important to the company, noting that the cameras will strictly read license plates, not engage in facial recognition. 

So reading your license plate is not an invasion of privacy?

Another thing to think about... states selling you registration data!