Fury as Amazon Ring cameras are hooked up to ICE system

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Fury as Amazon Ring cameras are hooked up to ICE system

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Joe Wilkins (21 Jan 2026)

As US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wreak havoc on American communities, big tech companies have been making themselves indispensable to the increasingly tyrannical state.

Among them is Amazon subsidiary Ring, the company behind those AI doorbell cameras that have exploded in popularity over the last few years. Back in October, Ring announced that its devices would soon be looped into a network of Flock AI surveillance cameras. That network, an investigation by 404 Media found, has been available to local and federal police and enforcement agencies like ICE — leaving many worried that their Ring doorbell cams are now feeding into a government panopticon.

Sure enough, as anti-ICE protests ramp up throughout the US, activists are pushing a grassroots campaign to convince Ring users to smash their devices. Doing so, they say, could help deprive the federal government of footage it's using to enact a campaign of harassment, arrests, and deportation.

Though the exact legal mechanics of the government's access to Ring are murky at best, there's definitely cause for alarm. In 2021, the Verge reported that though Ring notifies users when law enforcement has requested their footage, agencies are still able to subpoena it even after the device owner has denied their request. What's more, the publication found that Amazon handed over the footage in 57 percent of cases.

[Simplycause]

I've been saying since I was in H.S. (01-05) that big business was the new big brother. Now it's just big brother.