security Ring: "We don't use facial recognition"; also Ring: "We have a head of facial recognition research" Cory Doctorow
amazon Prior to Amazon acquisition, Ring offered "swag" to customers who snitched on their neighbors Cory Doctorow
police Amazon admits police get Ring camera footage without owners' consent or a warrant Rob Beschizza
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surveillance Amazon used "security" to sell Ring doorbells, then blamed customers when hackers broke into them Cooper Quintin and Bill Budington
racism Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood "watch lists" Cory Doctorow
surveillance #NothingButDragnet: EFF calls on @Shaq to stop endorsing police partnerships with Amazon's creepy, surveilling Ring doorbells 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
surveillance Amazon's secret deals with cops gave corporate PR a veto over everything the cops said about their products Cory Doctorow
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
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