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Amazon Is Watching. The Internet giant is wiring homes… - 18 février 2021
The Internet giant is wiring homes, neighborhoods, and cities with cameras and microphones, and powering the nation’s intelligence services. Are we sure we can trust it ?
When you think of Amazon, you might think of comparison shopping from your couch, buying exactly what you want, for less than you’d pay at the (...)
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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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Amazon : un empire tentaculaire et insoupçonné - 1er février 2021
Les acquisitions et prises de participation des Gafam offrent un aperçu de l’étendue de leur écosystème et leurs axes de développement. Qu’en est-il pour Amazon ? Sa sobriété en termes de rachats ne doit pas être confondue avec de la docilité.
Sur les 30 dernières années, près de 770 entreprises ont été acquises par les (...)
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Ring se met enfin au chiffrement de bout en bout pour ses caméras grand public - 17 janvier 2021
La filiale d’Amazon spécialisée dans les objets connectés est en train de renforcer sérieusement la sécurité de sa clientèle en déployant du chiffrement de bout en bout. Malheureusement, l’option ne sera pas active par défaut.
Il y a du mouvement en matière de sécurité informatique du côté de Ring, un fabricant d’objets (...)
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Police surveillance of Black Lives Matter shows the danger technology poses to democracy - 15 janvier 2021
US police forces have been turning to technology to track down Black Lives Matter protestors. Content from social media platforms and affiliated sites has been instrumental in the authorities being able to identify protestors based on photos of their faces, clothes and hair, or on the fact that they posted while (...)
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Dozens sue Amazon’s Ring after camera hack leads to threats and racial slurs - 23 décembre 2020
Class action claims weak security allowed hackers to take over the smart cameras used on doorbells and in homes
Dozens of people who say they were subjected to death threats, racial slurs, and blackmail after their in-home Ring smart cameras were hacked are suing the company over “horrific” invasions of privacy.
A (...)
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Holiday Tech Gift Guide : 2020’s Most Creepy Surveillance Gifts - 25 novembre 2020
Let your loved ones decide what privacy means to them
One of the best things about the holiday season is that you get to force your own privacy preferences on others.
Maybe your family member wouldn’t normally buy a watch that tells Google when they’re asleep or a doorbell that helps them inform on their (...)
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Drone de surveillance domestique, sonnette connectée à la police... Quand les gadgets d’Amazon flirtent avec « Black Mirror » - 30 septembre 2020
Depuis qu’Amazon s’est jeté à corps perdu en 2014 dans la création de produits électroniques, le géant de la vente en ligne a commercialisé d’étonnants, voire terrifiants gadgets. Inventaire.
En présentant un drone de surveillance domestique et un assistant personnel rotatif lors de sa conférence de presse annuelle jeudi 24 (...)
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Doorbell Cameras Like Ring Give Early Warning of Police Searches, FBI Warned - 1er septembre 2020
Two leaked documents show how a monitoring tool used by police has been turned against them.
The rise of the internet-connected home security camera has generally been a boon to police, as owners of these devices can (and frequently do) share footage with cops at the touch of a button. But according to a leaked (...)
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Amazon : du Gard à l’Inde, la fronde contre le géant s’organise - 21 juillet 2020
Bataille judiciaire dans le Gard contre la construction d’un gigantesque entrepôt, manifs à New Delhi, révolte de salariés à Seattle… Ils sont de plus en plus nombreux à se rebeller contre Amazon, accusé de tout détruire sur son passage : petits commerces, emplois, paysages… Jusqu’à faire vaciller ce géant de l’e-commerce, (...)
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High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach - 21 juin 2020
Video of police in riot gear clashing with unarmed protesters in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has filled social media feeds. Meanwhile, police surveillance of protesters has remained largely out of sight.
Local, state and federal law enforcement organizations (...)
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The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police - 18 juin 2020
This week’s moves from Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM mark a major milestone for researchers and civil rights advocates in a long and ongoing fight over face recognition in law enforcement.
In the summer of 2018, nearly 70 civil rights and research organizations wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos demanding that Amazon stop (...)
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Why Big Tech’s new face recognition bans don’t go far enough - 17 juin 2020
While these tech giants may have stepped back from facial recognition, their bans don’t encompass other technology they supply for police or square with their past lobbying and legislative efforts.
Advocates against flawed facial recognition systems have pushed for limits or bans on the use of these controversial (...)
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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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IBM quits facial-recognition market over police racial-profiling concerns - 11 juin 2020
CEO writes to US Congress calling for ‘national dialogue’ about use in law enforcement
IBM is pulling out of the facial recognition market and is calling for “a national dialogue” on the technology’s use in law enforcement.
The abrupt about-face comes as technology companies are facing increased scrutiny over their (...)
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Amazon suspend l’utilisation de sa reconnaissance faciale par la police pendant un an - 11 juin 2020
La société basée à Seattle n’a pas dit pourquoi, mais les manifestations après la mort de George Floyd ont attiré l’attention sur l’injustice raciale aux Etats-Unis et sur la façon dont la police utilise la technologie pour suivre les personnes.
Amazon a annoncé, mercredi 10 juin, interdire pendant un an à la police (...)
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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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Peur sur la ville : le marché des « safe cities » - 28 mai 2020
À Nice, Marseille, Saint-Étienne ou encore Valenciennes, se développent des projets de « safe city », pendant sécuritaire de la « smart city ». Ce terme désigne des dispositifs numériques destinés à lutter contre les dangers de l’espace urbain : vidéosurveillance « intelligente », où l’analyse d’image s’appuie sur des (...)
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Nextdoor’s Delicate Partnership With Local Police - 25 mai 2020
The hyper-local social media platform Nextdoor is winning over local law enforcement and other government officials in the U.S., alarming civil rights advocates.
Charles Husted, the chief of police in Sedona, Arizona, couldn’t contain his excitement. He had just been accepted into the Public Agencies Advisory (...)
