home security Ring's new security drone flies around inside your home, records video, talks to Amazon Alexa Xeni Jardin
home surveillance Ring does not fight crime, say cops in 8 states whose PDs partnered with Amazon-owned home surveillance Xeni Jardin
insider threats Multiple Amazon employees have been fired for spying on Ring owners' cameras Cory Doctorow
victim blaming Amazon used "security" to sell Ring doorbells, then blamed customers when hackers broke into them Cooper Quintin and Bill Budington
belt and road AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow
discord Nulledcast: a podcast where hackers play live audio of themselves breaking into Ring cameras and tormenting their owners Cory Doctorow
credential stuffing Family puts Ring camera in children's room, discovers that hacker is watching their kids 24/7, taunting them through the speaker Cory Doctorow
ring ring surveillancephone Amazon's Ring surveillance doorbell leaks its customers' home addresses, linked to their doorbell videos Cory Doctorow
networked authoritarianism Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood "watch lists" Cory Doctorow
networked authoritarianism 10,000 people are calling for Congress to investigate Amazon Ring Cory Doctorow
#NothingButDragnet #NothingButDragnet: EFF calls on @Shaq to stop endorsing police partnerships with Amazon's creepy, surveilling Ring doorbells Cory Doctorow
cctvs Civil rights groups call for a stop to Amazon's doorbell surveillance partnerships with cops Cory Doctorow
finely parsed misleading statements Ring: "We don't use facial recognition"; also Ring: "We have a head of facial recognition research" Cory Doctorow
digital redlining Prior to Amazon acquisition, Ring offered "swag" to customers who snitched on their neighbors Cory Doctorow
digital redlining Amazon's surveillance doorbell marketers help cops get warrantless access to video footage from peoples' homes Cory Doctorow
facebook for frightened people Amazon's secret deals with local cops give them access to realtime 911 data for use in scary alerts sent to Ring owners Cory Doctorow
authoritariansm Amazon's secret deals with cops gave corporate PR a veto over everything the cops said about their products Cory Doctorow