Re:Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance
by _r3e4 on Sunday October 14, 2018 @04:50PM
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Here is an example of Ring partnering with a police department - Orlando - to offer discounted video surveillance IoT devices to citizens, with caveat that they can share their videos with cops to fight crime.
Orlando police department was called out for civil rights violations when they partnered with Amazon's facial recognition technology. The thing about Ring is it's marketed to consumers as a cheap camera....not a hard core image processing face rec AI tool for policing built by Ukraine's biggest tech company.
Every single security article you read about Ukraine's cyber attacks warns about IoT and russian intelligence officials penetrating the private sector. Do american police forces even care about the vulnerability of having this portal app on their phones? Again, nothing is encrypted.
Re:Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance
by fixermark on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:15PM
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So you mean the discount is for the hardware under the assumption that the users will consent, not actually direct compensation for sending data to the police?
Orlando police department was called out for civil rights violations when they partnered with Amazon's facial recognition technology. The thing about Ring is it's marketed to consumers as a cheap camera....not a hard core image processing face rec AI tool for policing built by Ukraine's biggest tech company.
Every single security article you read about Ukraine's cyber attacks warns about IoT and russian intelligence officials penetrating the private sector. Do american police forces even care about the vulnerability of having this portal app on their phones? Again, nothing is encrypted.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orange/os-orlando-ring-...