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Leaked pics from Amazon Ring show potential new surveillance features | Ars Technica - 22 avril 2020
Amazon wouldn’t be the first consumer company to do it, but it would be the biggest.
Amazon subsidiary Ring, which has partnerships with almost 1,200 law enforcement agencies nationwide, does not currently include facial recognition or license plate scanning tools in its home surveillance line of consumer products. (...)
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Internet sait-il déjà tout de nous ? le 29 avril avec Olivier Tesquet - 22 avril 2020
Acxiom, Experian, Equifax : voici que quelques exemples de courtiers en données (Data Brokers en anglais), des sociétés qui s’enrichissent en collectant et revendant nos informations numériques. Vous les connaissez ? Qu’en est-il d’EDVIGE, PASP, TES, IAS, FPR, TAJ, CORAIL ? Il s’agit de fichiers de renseignement (...)
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VIDÉO. Géolocalisation, partage de nos données… Tous surveillés pour contrer le coronavirus ? - 3 avril 2020
Pour arrêter la pandémie de Covid-19, de nombreux États ont activé des moyens de surveillance massive de leur population, utilisant la géolocalisation et les données des smartphones de leurs citoyens. Mais à quel prix pour nos libertés ? Dans son ouvrage « A la trace », Olivier Tesquet explore les nouvelles formes de (...)
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Ring and Nest helped normalize American surveillance and turned us into a nation of voyeurs - The Washington Post - 12 mars 2020
For all the worries about hacking, owners of Internet-connected cameras say they love watching people silently from afar — often their own family members
Margaret Cudia thought her Ring doorbell camera was “the best thing since sliced bread.” She loved watching the world pass by through her suburban New Jersey (...)
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Opinion | All This Dystopia, and for What ? - The New York Times - 10 mars 2020
When you signed up for this newsletter you may have noticed the language indicated it would be a “limited run.” And like all limited runs, ours is coming to an end next week.
We’re winding down next Tuesday and taking a brief hiatus. Next month, The Privacy Project newsletter will evolve into The New York Times’s (...)
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Mozilla - *privacy not included - 8 mars 2020
How creepy is that smart speaker, that fitness tracker, those wireless headphones ? We created this guide to help you shop for safe, secure connected products. Look for this symbol minimum decurity standards badge for products that meet our Minimum Security (...)
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How to stop your smart home spying on you | Technology | The Guardian - 8 mars 2020
Everything in your smart home, from the lightbulbs to the thermostat, could be recording you or collecting data about you. What can you do to curb this intrusion ?
During an interview with the BBC last year, Google’s senior vice-president for devices and services, Rick Osterloh, pondered whether a homeowner should (...)
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Amazon’s Ring logs every doorbell press and app action - BBC News - 4 mars 2020
Amazon keeps records of every motion detected by its Ring doorbells, as well as the exact time they are logged down to the millisecond.
The details were revealed via a data request submitted by the BBC.
It also disclosed that every interaction with Ring’s app is also stored, including the model of phone or tablet (...)
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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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Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop - The New York Times - 18 février 2020
Microphones and cameras lurk everywhere. You may want to slip on some privacy armor.
Last year, Ben Zhao decided to buy an Alexa-enabled Echo speaker for his Chicago home. Mr. Zhao just wanted a digital assistant to play music, but his wife, Heather Zheng, was not enthused. “She freaked out,” he said.
Ms. Zheng (...)
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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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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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Do Ring Cameras Violate Wiretapping Laws ? New Hampshire Is About to Find Out - VICE - 3 février 2020
Prosecutors want to use audio captured by one of Amazon’s home surveillance cameras as evidence in an unprecedented case.
Last July, Timothy Burke was standing outside his sister’s apartment in Rochester, N.H., allegedly firing a pistol at the ground. Words were exchanged—a conversation of obvious interest to the (...)
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Smart doorbell company Ring may be surveilling users through its app - 29 janvier 2020
Electronic Frontier Foundation report finds Android app shares names, IP addresses and other data with third parties
Amazon’s smart doorbell company Ring may be using its app to surveil users, a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed on Wednesday.
The “Ring for Android” app shares user data (...)
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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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Ring Ukraine News Suppressed at Amazon’s Request - 25 janvier 2020
Ring Ukraine News Suppressed at Amazon’s Request, Journalists Say
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On November 21, the Ukrainian business publication Vector published a genuine regional success story : An Amazon research lab in Kyiv, affiliated with the company’s Ring home security division, was receiving a “rebrand” makeover and a (...)
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Comment Ring est passée d’une start-up de domotique au premier réseau de surveillance des Etats-Unis ? | LINC - 14 janvier 2020
En quelques années, la start-up Ring, propriété d’Amazon, est devenue le premier réseau de vidéosurveillance privée des Etats-Unis. Sa stratégie marketing basée sur un discours sécuritaire et une logique de partenariats avec les forces de police locale inquiète les défenseurs des libertés individuelles.
La journaliste (...)
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Amazon : Alexa ou la tentation totalitaire - 31 décembre 2019
La firme américaine souhaite vous accompagner dans chacun des instants de votre quotidien. À quel prix ?
Alexa est déjà présente dans des millions de foyers. En juin, le cabinet Loup Venture estimait qu’Amazon vendrait aux États-Unis 72 millions de ses assistants vocaux en 2019, contrôlant ainsi 58% du marché.
Alexa (...)
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Think Alexa Is Too Creepy For Your Kitchen ? Don’t Give It to Aunty Mary. - 30 décembre 2019
As 2019 comes to a close, millions of new spying devices are headed for American homes.
The grass-roots surveillance network in the United States is poised for yet another major expansion this Christmas season. Think of each new Ring video doorbell, discount DNA test, WiFi-equipped clothes dryer, smart speaker (...)
