John,

Amazon Ring is building a privately run, for-profit surveillance state—and they’ve recruited police to be their sales team. In exchange, police get the promise of on-demand access to their camera footage.

Public records revealed that over 200 police departments have partnerships with Amazon Ring.¹ Amazon provides police with free or subsidized surveillance doorbells to market to residents, as well as a “Law Enforcement Portal” app to make it seamless for police to request footage from users. The end result: a warrantless dragnet with cameras at every door in your city.

Amazon Ring’s for-profit partnerships with police undermines our basic civil liberties. Sign here to tell your local elected officials to put a stop to this.

SIGN PETITION

This twisted partnership between police departments and Amazon threatens everyone, but particularly communities of color, who have a history of being overpoliced. Amazon Ring promises to make this worse—a recent report found that its Neighbors app “reinforces the racist biases of its users, and actively puts people of color at risk in communities.”²

Amazon Ring isn't just peddling the tools of our surveillance—they’re coaching cops on how to acquire footage without getting a warrant.³ We can’t let our elected officials collude with a multinational corporation to sell off our privacy to the highest bidder without our knowledge or consent.

Demand your local government break ties with Amazon Ring and stop this surveillance empire while we still can.

Thanks for all you do,

Evan for FFTF

Footnotes:

1. Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wyjy/amazon-told-police-it-has-partnered-with-200-law-enforcement-agencies

2. Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvyvzd/amazons-home-security-company-is-turning-everyone-into-cops

3. Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwea4/revealed-the-secret-scripts-amazon-give-to-cops-to-promote-ring-surveillance-cameras

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