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Initially, police required recipients of those free cameras to agree to provide any video police requested. It dropped the requirement after The Associated Press began reporting this story. If any partnership required data sharing, “we would never do it,” Heitman said. Back in Wolcott, Ernie Field won a free Ring camera and said he had to register for the app to qualify for the raffle. Now he gets alerts on his phone when a car drives by and a short video when his daughter gets home from school. “I don’t know if there’s more crime now, or we just know about it more because of social media,” he said.