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Tell Congress: Ban local subsidies for Amazon Ring!
Local municipalities are subsidizing Amazon Ring’s dangerous, flawed, and racially biased private surveillance system. We demand you take action immediately and ban public subsidies for private surveillance.
Why is this important?
Amazon wants to use your taxpayer dollars to fund the expansion of their private surveillance network known as Ring. It's already started in cities like Baltimore, but it’s not too late for you to stop handing public funds to Amazon and its creeping surveillance system.
Amazon has already built Ring partnerships with around 400 US cities. But now they’re going even further by expecting local governments to use taxpayer dollars to subsidize their corporate profits -- and spy on your neighborhood.
When paired with Amazon’s facial recognition service, Ring cameras will be able to identify anyone simply walking down the street, and then storing and sharing that data with law enforcement. Such as ICE agents. We need Congress to step in and stop this.