This simple and affordable step will help you feel safe and secure your first night in your new home. “Amazon’s home security company Ring has enlisted local police departments around the country to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free Ring products and a ‘portal’ that allows police to request footage from these cameras, a secret agreement obtained by Motherboard shows,” the story says. “The agreement also requires police to ‘keep the terms of this program confidential. ’ Dozens of police departments around the country have partnered with Ring, but until now, the exact terms of these partnerships have remained unknown. ”“During that presentation the law enforcement program was mentioned, but it was not yet operational. As I understood it then, the plan was to allow a police department access to the videos that were being shared by Ring product owners through the Ring Neighbor’s App where Ring product owners can opt in to share their videos to other Ring owners in a certain geographical area around their location.