In the first six months of the year, Amazon shared 11 Ring doorbell videos with law enforcement without the owner's permission.
Ring made a good-faith determination that there was an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to a person in each of the 11 instances.
Emergency disclosure requests were filed by law enforcement agencies in the United States.
Huseman said that the company has partnerships with 2,161 law enforcement agencies and over 450 fire departments. Since November, when the investigation began, partnerships with police forces have grown five times.
It has become harder for the public to move, assemble, and converse in public without being recorded. We can't accept that this is inevitable.
Out of concerns for privacy and civil rights, five US senators re-introduced legislation to ban the government's use of facial recognition technology.
An Amazon engineer called for the smart doorbell and home security system to be shut down in 2020 because of privacy issues. Four employees have been accused of abusing their access to owners' home footage.
Amazon does not plan to make end-to-end encryption of Ring videos and recordings the default setting for users. Amazon and Ring wouldn't have access to user videos if the service ended-to-end was locked.
Huseman said that they will continue to prioritize privacy, security, and user control as they improve technologies.
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