Amazon’s Ring camera raises civil liberties concerns: US senator

Amazon-owned doorbell camera company Ring is facing questions from a US senator over its partnerships with police departments around the country. Markey sent a letter to Bezos raising privacy and civil liberty concerns about Ring cameras that are capturing and storing footage of US neighbourhoods. — AP

WASHINGTON: US Democratic Senator Edward Markey raised concerns on Sept 5 that law enforcement use of Amazon.com Inc's Ring doorbell camera in investigations could disproportionately affect people of colour and encourage racial profiling.

In a letter to Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos, Markey said sharing information from Ring's at-home camera systems with police departments "could easily create a surveillance network that places dangerous burdens on people of colour" and stoke "racial anxieties" in communities where it works with law enforcement.