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Amazon’s Data Dragnet - 21 février 2021
Amazon is expanding into every corner of people’s lives with its growing list of products and services. That’s allowing it to collect far more data about its users than many people realize.
Facebook, Google, and Twitter have faced hard questions about the data they collect on their users and what they do with that (...)
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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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Nextdoor Is Quietly Replacing the Small-Town Paper - 27 janvier 2021
While Facebook and Twitter get the scrutiny, Nextdoor is reshaping politics one neighborhood at a time
One year ago, Delaware’s second-largest school district was in trouble. A failed referendum in 2019, on the heels of state funding cuts two years prior, had left it staring down a $10 million deficit that raised (...)
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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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Police Will Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras - 4 novembre 2020
This is not a drill. Red alert : The police surveillance center in Jackson, Mississippi, will be conducting a 45-day pilot program to live stream the Amazon Ring cameras of participating residents.
Since Ring first made a splash in the private security camera market, we’ve been warning of its potential to (...)
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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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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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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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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 (...)
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Applis de traçage : scénarios pour les non-spécialistes – Framablog - 24 avril 2020
Un document de plus sur les dangers de l’application de traçage ? Nous n’allons pas reproduire ici les 13 pages documentées et augmentées de notes de référence d’une équipe de 14 spécialistes en cryptographie :
Xavier Bonnetain, University of Waterloo, Canada ; Anne Canteaut, Inria ; Véronique Cortier, CNRS, Loria ; (...)
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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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Avec le coronavirus, le retour des « corbeaux » - 10 avril 2020
A Paris comme en province, la police reçoit des appels pour dénoncer des manquements, réels ou supposés, aux mesures de confinement. Un phénomène limité, mais révélateur des angoisses de l’époque et du poids du passé.
Ce mail a sûrement déçu des vocations. La mairie du 20e arrondissement de Paris l’a envoyé à ses administrés, (...)
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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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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 (...)
