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Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network
As reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to light, the home security company, acquired last year by Amazon for a whopping $1 billion, strove to underscore the privacy it had pledged to provide users.
Even as its #creeping objective of ensuring an ever-expanding #network of home #security devices eventually becomes indispensable to daily #police work, #Ring promised its customers would always have a choice in “what information, if any, they share with law enforcement.” While it quietly toiled to minimize what police officials could reveal about Ring’s police partnerships to the public, it vigorously reinforced its obligation to the privacy of its customers—and to the users of its crime-alert #app, #Neighbors.
However, a #Gizmodo #investigation, which began last month and ultimately revealed the potential locations of up to tens of thousands of Ring #cameras, has cast new doubt on the effectiveness of the company’s privacy safeguards. It further offers one of the most “striking” and “disturbing” glimpses yet, privacy experts said, of #Amazon’s privately run, #omni-#surveillance shroud that’s enveloping U.S. cities.
Gizmodo has acquired data over the past month connected to nearly 65,800 individual posts shared by users of the Neighbors app. The posts, which reach back 500 days from the point of collection, offer extraordinary insight into the proliferation of Ring video surveillance across #American #neighborhoods and raise important questions about the #privacy trade-offs of a consumer-driven network of surveillance cameras controlled by one of the world’s most powerful corporations.
And not just for those whose faces have been recorded.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://gizmodo.com/ring-s-hidden-data-let-us-map-amazons-sprawling-home-su-1840312279
#DeleteAmazon #DeleteRing #why #thinkabout
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As reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to light, the home security company, acquired last year by Amazon for a whopping $1 billion, strove to underscore the privacy it had pledged to provide users.
Even as its #creeping objective of ensuring an ever-expanding #network of home #security devices eventually becomes indispensable to daily #police work, #Ring promised its customers would always have a choice in “what information, if any, they share with law enforcement.” While it quietly toiled to minimize what police officials could reveal about Ring’s police partnerships to the public, it vigorously reinforced its obligation to the privacy of its customers—and to the users of its crime-alert #app, #Neighbors.
However, a #Gizmodo #investigation, which began last month and ultimately revealed the potential locations of up to tens of thousands of Ring #cameras, has cast new doubt on the effectiveness of the company’s privacy safeguards. It further offers one of the most “striking” and “disturbing” glimpses yet, privacy experts said, of #Amazon’s privately run, #omni-#surveillance shroud that’s enveloping U.S. cities.
Gizmodo has acquired data over the past month connected to nearly 65,800 individual posts shared by users of the Neighbors app. The posts, which reach back 500 days from the point of collection, offer extraordinary insight into the proliferation of Ring video surveillance across #American #neighborhoods and raise important questions about the #privacy trade-offs of a consumer-driven network of surveillance cameras controlled by one of the world’s most powerful corporations.
And not just for those whose faces have been recorded.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://gizmodo.com/ring-s-hidden-data-let-us-map-amazons-sprawling-home-su-1840312279
#DeleteAmazon #DeleteRing #why #thinkabout
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📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@BlackBox_Archiv
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Facebook’s Nextdoor-clone Neighborhoods is coming soon to four US cities
It’s already available across Canada
Facebook, which never saw a social network it couldn’t copy, says its Nextdoor-clone Neighborhoods is now available across Canada and is coming soon to four US cities. According to CNET, the US locations being targeted are Charlotte, North Carolina; San Diego, California; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Newark, New Jersey.
Like Nextdoor, Neighborhoods is all about corralling geographically-defined groups of users into a single space to discuss local goings-on. Facebook says users should be able to get to know neighbors, ask for recommendations for the best coffee shops or locksmiths, and organize local events. Users can also create splinter groups specific to their interests.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/5/22420597/facebook-nextdoor-clone-neighborhoods-canada-us-cities-launch
#facebook #DeleteFacebook #nextdoor #clone #neighborhoods #usa #canada
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It’s already available across Canada
Facebook, which never saw a social network it couldn’t copy, says its Nextdoor-clone Neighborhoods is now available across Canada and is coming soon to four US cities. According to CNET, the US locations being targeted are Charlotte, North Carolina; San Diego, California; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Newark, New Jersey.
Like Nextdoor, Neighborhoods is all about corralling geographically-defined groups of users into a single space to discuss local goings-on. Facebook says users should be able to get to know neighbors, ask for recommendations for the best coffee shops or locksmiths, and organize local events. Users can also create splinter groups specific to their interests.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/5/22420597/facebook-nextdoor-clone-neighborhoods-canada-us-cities-launch
#facebook #DeleteFacebook #nextdoor #clone #neighborhoods #usa #canada
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