Your Amazon Ring Camera Works for ICE

Feb 3

In October 2025, Ring announced an integration with Flock Safety, a company that operates a vast network of license plate readers and security cameras for law enforcement nationwide and freely shares its footage with ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy. In theory, law enforcement using Flock could send a “Community Request” to a Ring Owner to view their footage. Civil‑liberties groups warn that this growing ecosystem, combined with Amazon’s broader government business, heightens the risk that footage could ultimately support immigration enforcement, even as Ring and Flock both publicly deny any direct partnership with ICE and say they only share data with agencies under user consent, court orders, or emergency legal processes. In our current level of state violence, trust that the rule of law will be followed by law enforcement agencies is at an all-time low. According to the Chop Wood Carry Water January 29th blog post, “Flock customers can use AI tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) with a warrant.”

People concerned about these developments can act both at the personal and policy levels. If you own an Amazon Ring Camera, please consider unplugging it and protecting your neighbors. If that is not possible, please consider turning off or limiting law‑enforcement features in the app, declining all “Community Requests” from police, using strong privacy and sharing settings, and avoiding posting videos on Amazon’s “Neighbors”, their crime and safety social networking app, that could be easily repurposed by law enforcement.