Jackson's use of private Ring cameras to fight crime is raising eyebrows and drawing national attention. NBC and former Clarion-Ledger reporter Bracey Harris reported:
Strapped for cash and facing a sharp rise in homicides, city leaders here are expanding police surveillance powers to allow residents and business owners to send live feeds from many types of security cameras — including popular doorbell cameras — directly to the city’s real-time command center....
The move made Jackson, which has struggled to keep up with advances in high-tech crime-fighting, one of two dozen places in the country where police agencies inked deals this year with Fusus, a small Georgia company that aims to make it easier for American law enforcement agencies to build networks of public and private security cameras....
“What we’ll be able to do is get a location, draw a circle around it and pull up every camera within a certain radius,” Lumumba told the local NBC affiliate in October, after the City Council approved a 45-day trial for the program. “If someone is running out of a building, we can follow and trace them.”
He added, “If someone says, ‘I want my Ring door camera to be used,’ we’ll be able to use it.”
But the idea of police accessing real-time video from a Ring camera — one of the best-selling brands of doorbell cameras — has thrust Jackson into a national debate over law enforcement’s increasing reliance on private companies to expand their surveillance networks, and the privacy risks that result.
“I don’t believe the government should be tapping into my Ring,” Jackson City Council member De’Keither Stamps said, questioning whether there were enough safeguards to prevent the technology from being abused. “I don’t believe we should be sponsoring this.”...
Ring has distanced itself from the Jackson program, saying in a statement that it “is not working with any of the companies or the city in connection with this program.”...
But by making deals with tech companies that channel feeds from private cameras, police are skipping the transparency requirements — public bidding, public meetings, public installation — that come with buying and installing government cameras, said Matthew Guariglia, a policy analyst with the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, which promotes giving the public more information, and more say, about new surveillance measures. (In Jackson, the City Council approved the pilot with Fusus but there was no formal request for proposals, since the program is a trial.)...
Reed Hogan, president of the Belhaven Improvement Association, a historic residential district in Jackson, said the group has already installed the Fusus devices on its security network, which includes cameras at the neighborhood’s entrances on public streets. It’s unclear when the city will gain access to those live feeds under the Fusus pilot.
Hogan said he sees the city’s initiative as a security “steroid shot.”... Rest of long article.
Kingfish note: Yes, you read the time of the post correctly. I expect the score to be 28-0 or worse by halftime.
26 comments:
Hope the peeps in Belhaven think long and hard about the surveillance state they've created. Neighbors watching neighbors' every move, every coming and going.
Jackson is taking from China playbook of watching it citizens. Lumumba is setting this up to watch who enters the voting stations in the next mayoral election.
It's one of dem slippery slopes.
“Roll Tide What?”
I have had a ring for awhile now and have zero problems allowing LE to access it to stop crime. Libtards want to stop it of course. Free crime instead of crime free
I’m all for decreasing crime, but that is just creepy.
Lumumba raids the CID in 3 ... 2 ... 1. JUST WATCH.
To allow someone to access your cameras, you have to give them access to your LAN, which gives access to your computer and all other devices on your LAN, including interior cameras and smart devices, AND passwords.
No thanks.
I don't think Jackson's crime problem is the inability to CATCH the criminals. It just has had a longstanding problem of PROSECUTING the criminals, and removing them from society. So far, the new Hinds County DA (Jody Owens) seems to be really clearing out the backlog that accumulated under Robert Shuler Smith, who now represents some of the very defendants he once failed to timely prosecute.
If Jackson was really serious about dealing with its soaring homicide rate, it would create a gang unit. Until then, it's all just BS.
@9:35pm - No, that’s not how it works.
The question is not 'will it work', but, will he mandate it?
The Little Emperor is spinning like a gyroscope.
If you can’t trust JPD, Who can you trust?
What good is this if the judges just let them out. And where's the proof that crime is deterred by a criminal knowing he/she is being photographed. The death penalty hasn't stopped all of Jackson's murders. I'd start by putting God back into the schools, and at least teach the 10 Commandments as a foundation of our laws.
Mary in Madison three years ago decreed, with a wave of her scepter, that all businesses would (or else) mount exterior cameras to aid in 'law enforcement'. Next up, the city will mandate a 'clear bag' policy so it can be determined (from the viewing booth) who is buying condoms (that should not be), who purchased hair color and just which neighbors are into racy under-garments. Applications for the viewing booth positions are flooding City Hall.
7:18 get's the post of the day award.
@1:11 am - Yes it does. Once port forwarding is enabled for remote access the barn door is open.
Note, I have designed and installed multiple IP based security camera systems in commercial applications, some with 16 cameras with WiFi links to distant buildings.
Stay in your basement and keep Googling, wannabe.
@ 9:35 is correct...Once you have given someone legal permission to get data/video from your doorbell, they now have access to EVERYTHING that connects to that Modem, including most people's phones who are set up to connect to their internet automatically. I KNOW someone who could hack into almost anyone's Internet Modem...& he was in High school...10 years ago. He did it for kicks, especially when visiting friends, he would show them everything their neighbors were doing through the Wi-Fi signals being picked up. A lot of pranks were played on people & they never knew who did it, some had severe ramifications for the victims. I realize now he was a textbook Narcissist with a insatiable desire for power.
Now he has his PhD in Computer Engineering & works for one of the 3 letter agencies, under the guise of another mundane Government Agency, traveling to multiple countries to use satellite "Technology" to analyze soil moisture.
Take this test. Look at the permissions any app on your phone has. Someone tried to get me to DL a flashlight app on my phone. I did. Then I looked at the permissions I had given it in the user agreement (which no one reads). I THINK I uninstalled it???
Take a look at the permissions the YouTube app has...
I have a "Clock" app that is part of the ATT Original Provider installed apps, & can't be removed unless you have Admin authority.
It can...
Directy call phone numbers, read phone status & identity.
Turn on Microphone & RECORD audio
Approximate phone location using GPS & Network information
Read calendar App events plus confidential information
Read, Modify or delete the contents of the SD memory card
Connect & disconnect from Wi-Fi
Allow FULL network access
View Network Connections
View Wi_Fi Connections
Retrieve Running Apps information
Run at Startup
Draw over other Apps
Change Audio settings
Interact across different Users
Mock location sources for testing
Modify Phone system settings
Write diagnostic information
When I purchased the phone from ATT & signed their user Agreement, this 3rd party Clock app was included & can't be removed by the owner.
Who remembers when Cell phones were relatively expensive & charged by the minute plans? Even then, there was a explosion of Phone Cloning...& all you had to do was walk by someone who had a scanning device that captured your phones information & then a clone could be made, allowing it to be sold & all the calls made were charged to your #...because it cloned your device Identy.
It's even more popular now & easier, but more dangerous...March 2020
https://www.techlicious.com/tip/how-to-tell-if-your-phone-has-been-cloned/
The mayor is already blaming whitey for spikes in COVID cases, so next he'll blame predominately white neighborhoods for skyrocketing murder cases if residents there don't give police access to doorbell technology. He'll do anything other than take responsibility.
Twenty years from now this whole discussion will sound ridiculous. GPS, satellite technology, urban surveillance and all the rest will be so advanced that it will all be as routine as cell phones are today. Face it and learn to master it or it will master you. Technology is not going backwards.
Dear @10:50 - please double the tin-foil on your head and check under your bed for the booger-man.
12:43, Not everything that instills fear is a phantom or a hoax, to be denied and invalidated.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'T out to get you.
@10:50
You don’t need a Ph.D to know how to use a packet sniffer. We use them all the time at work.
December 5, 2020 at 9:35 PM
Considering most consumer grade router have UPnP enabled by default you any Internet of Shit device can call out and the firewall will allow it.
Whut's a packet sniffer?
@9:35 needs to tell us who he designs and installs under so we all know who not to sends bids to. Commercial security camera systems setup without network segmentation ya know vlans and proper firewalling of devices from east/west traffic in addition to north/south is just extremely bad infosec. Im also imagining the system that these folks use have an encrypted tunnel up to a cloud provider or everybody and there grandparents figured out how to forward ports so there app could access remotely but i digress...... but yeah to the stupid point of if people are allowing full access into a direct lan device that would be dumb to do. I just dont believe thats how ring and the like work but I also dont own those products.
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