Security News > 2020 > November > Police to Livestream Ring Camera Footage of Mississippi Residents

UPDATE. Police in Mississippi are testing a program in which they can livestream video footage from private security cameras - including Ring doorbell cameras - installed at private homes and businesses.

Even though the camera owners agree to participate in the program, cameras such as Ring often capture footage of people in the vicinity also going about their daily business, people who likely did not agree to have their moves surveilled by law enforcement, Guariglia wrote.

"In Jackson, this footage can now be live streamed directly onto a dozen monitors scrutinized by police around the clock. Even if you refuse to allow your footage to be used that way, your neighbor's camera pointed at your house may still be transmitting directly to the police."

The Jackson pilot program comes slightly more than a year after Amazon-owned Ring announced that it was starting a "New neighborhood watch" effort to allow homeowners to provide voluntary access to camera footage to officers.

Just last month, Ring raised privacy hackles again when it unveiled the new Always Home Cam, a smart home security camera drone that flies around homes taking security footage of people inside their own homes.

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