Ring expands ‘Search Party’ function from lost dogs to broader surveillance
The Ring home security ecosystem is at the center of a privacy and surveillance debate after internal communications, a controversial…
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Ring and Flock call off integration as scrutiny of camera-to-police partnership intensifies
Amazon-owned Ring and Flock Safety have canceled their planned partnership, stepping back from an integration that would have linked one…
Ring Super Bowl ad sparks backlash over AI camera surveillance
A Super Bowl commercial for Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera triggered swift backlash, with critics arguing that the company used an…
Ring faces new scrutiny as lawmaker warns of biometric surveillance crisis
U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey’s long-running probe into Amazon’s Ring surveillance doorbell system reached a new boiling point this week…
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…
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…
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