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Amazon’s Ring now has partnerships with over 2,000 police and fire departments - 13 février 2021
A hot potato : Amazon Ring’s partnerships with police and fire departments that allow them to request users’ security camera footage has brought plenty of controversies. But the company isn’t slowing down the program—quite the opposite. A new report reveals that 1,189 departments joined last year, bringing the total (...)
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The Real Cost of the Ring Always Home Cam - 30 septembre 2020
A new drone from Amazon subsidiary Ring raises familiar questions
The phrase “surveillance capitalism” was coined by Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff to describe the system in which internet platforms such as Google and Facebook profit through free services that track users’ online behavior. Another company in (...)
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Amazon says ’Black Lives Matter’. But the company has deep ties to policing - 14 juin 2020
Activists say the company’s work, which includes commercial partnerships with law enforcement, harms communities of color
Amazon says ’Black Lives Matter’. But the company has deep ties to policing
Activists say the company’s work, which includes commercial partnerships with law enforcement, harms communities of (...)
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How Ring Transmits Fear to American Suburbs - 4 juin 2020
Why do we surveil ourselves ?
This is the third of a three-part series, where we’ll explore how Ring transformed from start-up pitch to the technology powering Amazon’s privatized surveillance network throughout the United States.
On Halloween 2017, Ring’s servers crashed en masse. The Ring app was nonfunctional. (...)
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How Amazon and the Cops Set Up an Elaborate Sting Operation That Accomplished Nothing - 4 juin 2020
Behind-the-scenes emails show how Amazon and Ring worked with police in Aurora, Colorado to make people scared of each other.
For Amazon, fear is good for business.
If customers fear their neighbors, and fear they might steal a package, customers are less likely to be mad at Amazon if they don’t get a package (...)
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Citizen App Again Lets Users Report Crimes — and Experts See Big Risks - 4 mars 2020
Citizen, a mobile app that alerts people to nearby emergencies, is testing the reintroduction of a controversial feature that lets users report crimes and incidents on their own by live streaming video.
Created by New York-based startup sp0n, Citizen first launched under the name “Vigilante” in 2016 in New York (...)
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Your Doorbell Camera Spied on You. Now What ? - The New York Times - 22 février 2020
Amazon’s popular Ring security cameras have gaping security holes. Here’s how to protect yourself.
Has there ever been a tech product more polarizing than Ring ?
The internet-connected doorbell gadget, which lets you watch live video of your front porch through a phone app or website, has gained a reputation as the (...)
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Privacy advocates alarmed by Amazon’s Ring partnerships with Bay Area police - SFChronicle.com - 17 février 2020
An Amazon-owned home security company has netted hundreds of police contracts — including nearly a dozen in the Bay Area — that could help solve neighborhood crime. But critics say the quick spread of such partnerships has skirted public oversight, turned police departments into corporate marketing machines and (...)
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What It’s Like to Own an Amazon Ring Doorbell Camera - 15 février 2020
I didn’t really think I’d ever have a Ring doorbell. I knew that “millions of users” worldwide had installed one of the many cloud-enabled security devices sold by the company, which is owned by Amazon, and I’d seen dozens of quasi-viral Ring-camera videos, often broadcast on local television news : clips of porch (...)
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Amazon Engineer : ’Ring should be shut down immediately and not brought back’ - 4 février 2020
An Amazon software engineer named Max Eliaser is calling for the shutdown of Ring, the doorbell camera company Amazon paid $2 billion for in 2018.
Hundreds of Amazon employees recently banded together to form Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an organization dedicated to holding the company’s feet to the fire (...)
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Why Amazon’s Ring and facial recognition technology are a clear and present danger to society - 3 février 2020
“The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible with a free society.” Amazon engineer Max Eliaser
The greatest threat posed to democracy in any free nation is that of ubiquitous government surveillance. Many countries today are struggling to (...)
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Ring’s Neighborhood Watch Feature Is Bringing Out the Worst in Boston - 29 janvier 2020
A home-security app promises to keep its users "safe and informed." Instead, it’s turning us all into bad neighbors.
On a Tuesday afternoon in December, a man dressed in a camo hoodie with a shopping bag at his side walked up a set of stairs, past a pole wrapped in Christmas ribbon, and onto a porch in East (...)
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Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 29 janvier 2020
Ring isn’t just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers.
An investigation by EFF of the Ring doorbell app for Android found it to be packed with third-party trackers sending out a plethora of customers’ personally identifiable information (PII). Four (...)
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Police can keep Ring camera video forever and share with whomever they’d like, Amazon tells senator - 12 décembre 2019
Police officers who download videos captured by homeowners’ Ring doorbell cameras can keep them forever and share them with whomever they’d like without providing evidence of a crime, the Amazon-owned firm told a lawmaker this month.
More than 600 police forces across the country have entered into partnerships with (...)
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The doorbells have eyes : The privacy battle brewing over home security cameras - 12 décembre 2019
Police want to register — and even subsidize — private security cameras. That’s just the start of the ethical challenges ahead.
Ding-dong, your doorbell is looking a bit creepy.
Ring video doorbells, Nest Hello and other connected security cameras are the fastest-growing home improvement gadgets since garage-door (...)
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Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon’s Sprawling Home Surveillance Network - 10 décembre 2019
As reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to light, the home security company, acquired last year by Amazon for a whopping $1 billion, strove to underscore the privacy it had pledged to provide users.
Even as its creeping objective of ensuring an ever-expanding network (...)
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Amazon’s Ring Planned Neighborhood “Watch Lists” Built on Facial Recognition - 28 novembre 2019
Ring, Amazon’s crimefighting surveillance camera division, has crafted plans to use facial recognition software and its ever-expanding network of home security cameras to create AI-enabled neighborhood “watch lists,” according to internal documents reviewed by The Intercept.
The planning materials envision a (...)
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Stockage de données top secret, reconnaissance faciale… Le business sécuritaire d’Amazon - 13 novembre 2019
Le géant de l’e-commerce est devenu un acteur majeur et controversé du secteur de la défense et de la sécurité, grâce à sa filiale d’hébergement de données ou ses visiophones connectés.
Cette expérience a été, pour nous, rien de moins qu’une transformation. » Sur scène, devant 10 000 personnes conviées à un événement organisé (...)
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Working Together for Safer Neighborhoods : Introducing the Neighbors Active Law Enforcement Map - 2 novembre 2019
At Ring, we believe that when communities work together, safer neighborhoods become a reality"”that’s why we created the Neighbors app"”we wanted to easily facilitate conversations around crime and safety among all members of the community, and we invited local law enforcement agencies to contribute to those (...)
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Visiophones Ring d’Amazon : les partenariats avec la police américaine inquiètent - 1er septembre 2019
Plus de 400 services de police travaillent avec Ring, une filiale d’Amazon qui produit et vend des visiophones connectés. Leurs images sont précieuses pour les forces de l’ordre, mais dangereuses pour les libertés, estiment les détracteurs du programme.
Les visiophones ne servent plus seulement à s’enquérir de (...)
