The fight over Ring’s new facial recognition feature
The growing pushback against the use of facial recognition in consumer surveillance devices has sharpened considerably with Amazon Ring’s plan…
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US lawmaker presses Amazon to drop facial recognition plan for Ring
Senator Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, is urging Amazon to…
Ring’s partnership with Flock raises privacy alarms
Amazon’s home-security subsidiary Ring is joining forces with Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based maker of automated license-plate readers (ALPR) and networked…
Amazon’s quiet rise as a power broker in police surveillance
In 2023, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office tested a new surveillance tool from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that used…
Amazon of 2 minds with law enforcement deals – fleeing locally, selling federally
This week brought news that Amazon, on the one hand, appears to be selling AI services to the FBI, and…
Facial recognition for smart doorbells developed to protect abuse victims
Jim Ramsey, a former police officer in Shrewsbury, NJ, has developed a facial recognition monitoring system called Overwatch that works…
What manuals don’t say about life with a facial recognition video doorbell
Some consumer electronics makers try to get ahead of surprises by writing in a manual about some possible non-satisfying features…
Ring keeps pushing the boundaries for facial recognition in US policing
Watching the New York Police Department’s expansion into facial recognition technology and practices is like witnessing someone who is not…
Facial recognition in surveillance keeps growing, but so do doubts
Several deployments of new face biometrics for surveillance reportedly have failed to deliver on crime-fighting promises. The first is the…
Has Amazon got a reality show for you! And you’re the camera operator.
What if all the talk in the United States about one’s right to biometric privacy is limited to advocates, academics,…
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