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  • Business Amazon wants to draft model facial recognition legislation Cory Doctorow
  • surveillance Amazon's surveillance doorbell marketers help cops get warrantless access to video footage from peoples' homes Cory Doctorow
  • police 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
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  • surveillance Cop says Amazon told him they had "partnered" with 200 US police forces to sell and tap into Ring surveillance doorbells Cory Doctorow
  • crime Amazon struck secret deals with local cops to get them to push surveillance-camera doorbells Cory Doctorow
  • Technology This map shows where local police departments partner with Amazon's Ring Xeni Jardin
  • Business Amazon's facial recognition fear crusade ramps up: now they're paying Facebook to show you pictures of suspected criminals to scare you into getting a surveillance doorbell Cory Doctorow
  • security Bad security design made it easy to spy on video from Ring doorbells and insert fake video into their feeds Cory Doctorow
  • Business Whistleblower: Amazon Ring stores your doorbell and home video feeds unencrypted and grants broad "unfettered" access to them Cory Doctorow

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