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  • Diamond Rings You can now buy DC Comics-themed wedding rings Thom Dunn
  • 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
  • ring Ring doorbell app packed with third-party trackers Bill Budington
  • 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
  • self-regulation Amazon wants to draft model facial recognition legislation 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
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