Police in a handful of U.S. states are utilizing software that taps into home security cameras with consumers' consent, Business Insider reports. Departments in California, Illinois, Minnesota and Mississippi are attempting to better fight crime with their access to the real-time footage, including streams from Amazon Ring cameras, through the program devised by developer Fusus. Fight for the Future Deputy Director Evan Greer is among the privacy advocates against the software, noting that "it's a worst-case-scenario for civil liberties."
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