Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Advocates

Re:Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Adv... by larrik on Friday March 09, 2018 @11:48AM (#16552976)

Huh?

There's nothing in the article about a partnership (despite being called that in the headline). All I see is a police department that put out an Alexa app. I don't see anything wrong with, that. I'm a bit confused on how the Echo displays the pictures the article claims they broadcast, though.

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Re:Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Adv... by mtmail on Friday March 09, 2018 @11:52AM (#16553012)

There's an Echo Show and Echo Spot product with a small display https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Echo-Show/dp/B01J24C0TI/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073SQYXTW/

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Re:Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Adv... by maxxxxx on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:03PM (#16553088)

I think the main point is that police data is now stored on Amazon servers.

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Re:Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Adv... by mseebach on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:32PM (#16553307)

Well, data that the Police is keen to share with as much of the public as possible, as quickly as possible. It hardly seems out of the realm of the reasonable to use Amazon for something like that.

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Re:Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Adv... by maxxxxx on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:53PM (#16553483)

They also want to use Alexa for incoming crime reports and internal discussions.

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Re:Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Adv... by pbhjpbhj on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:39PM (#16553377)

Things that get published in news media all ready, wanted and missing reports, crime info, etc..

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Re:Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Adv... by mc32 on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:19PM (#16553200)

Doesn't the USG put lots of citizen data on the AMZ gov cloud? Is that alarming in some way?

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Re:Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Adv... by maxxxxx on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:28PM (#16553266)

It all depends on the details. For pure storage of encrypted data it's probably OK. But I guess for an Alexa app the data will go through Amazon's algorithms and it won't be clear what else they will do with the data.

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Re:Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Adv... by fzss_ on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:35PM (#16553345)

No Alexa skill owners usually have there own backend

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Re:Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Adv... by dogma1138 on Saturday March 10, 2018 @08:25AM (#16558395)

Because the TV license covers iPlayer and other online services also it’s not just broadcast TV.

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Re:Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Adv... by dang on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:56PM (#16553507)

The article does say "in a partnership with Amazon developers", whatever that means.

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Re:Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Adv... by pbhjpbhj on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:38PM (#16553365)

Alexa works on FireTV too FWIW.

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