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A comment on Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance. Parent comment

Re:Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance by alphabettsy on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:02PM (#18231036)
The only abuse scenario I’ve seen on the app so far myself is people of color continually having their images shared as suspicious while walking down the sidewalk. Maybe that says more about my area than anything, but that’s a potential problem.

That, and a lady posted a photo of a vehicle and license plate that she followed several days after a recent minor crime was associated with a vehcile of the same make and color. Not sure if it ended up being the vehicle, but this should’ve only been shared with law enforcement since it could’ve been anyone’s car that happened to be similar.

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Re:Amazon's Ring Police Portal For Mass Surveillance by fixermark on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:06PM (#18231082)
Risk of increasing efficiency of racism is definitely a concern. On the plus side, an audit trail dataset of "suspicious person" neighborhood reports coupled with some racial-identification of the subjects in the images would be a concrete dataset to demonstrate structural racism to the (still-existant) nonbelievers in the phenomenon.
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