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Ring has sought to tightly control how police
officials portray their partnerships with the company, as both Gizmodo and Motherboard have reported. It sends cops scripted talking points to publish on social media and canned outreach messages to post on Neighbors. The company also asks police departments to sign confidential agreements, which often include a clause promising not to issue public statements about Ring before they are first vetted by Ring itself. “The relationship between the company and the police departments doesn’t necessarily seem to be completely about public safety,” says Dave Maass, a senior investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “They seem to be enlisting law enforcement in a sort of sales role. ”When police departments go even slightly off script, Ring pushes back. In April, the Bloomfield Police Department in New Jersey announced it was partnering with Ring and published a press release on social media that, according to documents obtained from another public records request, appeared to be almost entirely written by the company. The only parts that weren’t taken from Ring directly were quotes attributed to Bloomfield’s mayor, Michael Venezia, and its public safety director, Samuel DeMaio. Still, a member of Ring’s public relations team emailed the department after its announcement, asking for several corrections to be made, like ensuring Ring was always capitalized and its Neighbors app was mentioned by name.
Once a police department has access to Ring’s portal, officers can use it to request video footage from local Ring camera owners. The request email uses a template largely written by Ring, although police specify the time frame and geographic area they are looking for, as well as add a custom message.
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FIG. 3B illustrates various data structures used by some implementations, including an
event record 3168 i, a user profile 3163 i, and a device profile 3165 i. The event record 3168 i corresponds to an event i and data for the event i. In some instances, the data for motion event i includes event start data 31681 indicating when and/or how the event started, event segments data 31682, raw video data 31683, event end data 31684 indicating when and/or how the event ended, event features data 31685, scene features data 31686, associated user information 31687, and associated devices information 31688. In some instances, the event record 3168 i includes
only a subset of the above data. In some instances, the event record 3168 i includes additional event data not shown such as data regarding event/motion masks.
