Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen

[rcjordan]

One in 10 US police departments can now access videos from millions of privately owned home security cameras without a warrant

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/18/amazon-ring-largest-civilian-surveillance-network-us

[Rupert]

Put that in with good face recognition...


oops keep reading Rupert:

The concerns of activists and scholars have been compounded by developments in facial recognition technology and other forms of machine learning that could be conceivably applied to Ring recorded content and live feeds. Facial recognition technology has been denounced by AI researchers and civil rights groups for its racial and gendered biases. Although Ring doesn’t currently use facial recognition in its cameras, Amazon has sold this technology to police in the past. Following pressure from AI researchers and civil rights groups, Amazon placed a one-year pause on police use of its controversial facial recognition technology, but this moratorium will expire in June.

[rcjordan]

Amazon extends ban on police use of its facial recognition technology indefinitely - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/18/amazon-facial-recognition-ban/

[Rupert]

The police will develop their own....

[ergophobe]

It will become so cheap, easy and open-source that the police won't have to develop anything.

[rcjordan]

US Postal Service Uses Facial Recognition and Other High-Tech Tools To Monitor Social Media
https://reason.com/2021/05/20/usps-uses-facial-recognition-and-other-high-tech-tools-to-monitor-social-media/