Documents show that Amazon's Ring vets and authors public statements about Ring attributed to police and delays announcing partnerships with police departments
Amazon's home security company Ring has garnered enormous control over the ways in which its law enforcement partners are allowed … Tweets: @dellcam , @dellcam , @ericgeller , @dellcam , @snowjake , @...
FOIA docs show Ring required Lakeland, FL, police to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free products and a portal for requesting footage
though I imagine the PDs see the whole program as a win. Public agencies shouldn't be (1) keeping agreements like this confidential and (2) giving a private company veto over any public discussions ab...
Internal doc: Amazon keeps text transcripts of Alexa-triggered voice recordings deleted by users; Amazon says it is working on deleting them from subsystems
Amazon doesn't need to hear your voice recordings to know what you've said. They can read it. — After Alexa hears its wake word … Tweets: @alfredwkng Tweets: Alfred / @alfredwkng : NEW: An internal...
US retailers are deploying facial recognition tech to fight shoplifters, raising privacy concerns due to lack of legal restrictions or rules to prevent abuse
At my bodega down the block, photos of shoplifters sometimes litter the windows, a warning to would-be thieves that they're being watched. Tweets: @eff , @alfredwkng , and @evacide Tweets: @eff : Faci...
Researcher finds what appears to be an unsecured facial recognition database of 2.5M+ Uyghur Muslims in China, with ID card data and near real-time GPS data
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @b_nishanov , @einsteinsattic , @mattburgess1 , and @alfredwkng . Thanks: @campuscodi Tweets: Bakhti Nishanov / @b_nishanov : If you continue to have doubts China is...
How Facebook, Google, and Twitter train and use AI to manage abuse on a massive scale with some human help as false positives remain a challenge for AI
Alfred Ng / CNET : Tweets: @alfredwkng . Thanks: @cauchon Tweets: Alfred / @alfredwkng : When you sign up for Facebook from a phone, it's using the gyroscope to pick up subtle movements like breathin...
How Facebook, Google, and Twitter train and use AI to manage abuse on a massive scale with some human help as false positives remain a challenge for AI
Alfred Ng / CNET : Tweets: @alfredwkng . Thanks: @cauchon Tweets: Alfred / @alfredwkng : When you sign up for Facebook from a phone, it's using the gyroscope to pick up subtle movements like breathin...