Amazon has been tracking you without your consent. They've been awful for years.

#News #TechNews #Amazon #Privacy #DataMining #CCPA #GDPR #SDK #AmazonRing #AmazonEcho #AmazonAds

https://youtu.be/eXW771qqItM

Daily podcast: Amazon has been tracking you without your consent. They've been awful for years.

#News #TechNews #Amazon #Privacy #DataMining #CCPA #GDPR #SDK #AmazonRing #AmazonEcho #AmazonAds #podcast

https://soundcloud.com/nickaesp/atc

How does #AmazonRing deal with people installing it on their homes for "security", but what they're actually doing is tracking the in and outs of other members in the household. How they lose their privacy of leaving the house without others observing. https://jj.isgeek.net/2024/10/21-174546/

> Humanity... We need to reject false promises of security and convenience in exchange for a loss of privacy. Something as simple as investing in more streetlights can reduce so-called quality-of-life crimes like package theft and car break-ins without aggravating racial profiling or supercharging oppressive surveillance. Real community safety comes from helping one another, not spying on one another.  
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/amazons-ring-doorbell-videos-make-america-less-safe-crime-rcna55143

#AmazonRing #SurveillanceCapitalism
/HT @team via
@clacke

Bekannter möchte gerne sein Haus ‚bequem per Smartphone überwachen‘. Kurze Websuche bringt folgende Ergebnisse:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/10/amazon-tracking-devices-surveillance-state/671772/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/technology/personaltech/security-cameras-surveillance-privacy.html
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10603-022-09534-3
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/26/23279562/arlo-apple-wyze-eufy-google-ring-security-camera-foortage-warrant
https://www.the-ambient.com/explainers/how-amazon-google-apple-use-smart-speaker-data-2765/
https://www.heise.de/news/Der-Hacker-im-Schlafzimmer-Amazons-Ring-Kameras-werden-massenhaft-gehackt-4617254.html
https://netzpolitik.org/tag/smart-home/
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Gibt’s eigentlich auch Cloud & BigTech-freie und gute Lösungen für Kameraüberwachung & Co für Zuhause ohne IT-Expert*in zu sein und alles selbst zu hosten?
#smarthome #AmazonRing #camera #security

But in more hopeful news...

"That brings us to the biggest change in the Atlas since our launch in 2018. This week, we removed 2,530 data points: an entire category of surveillance. With the announcement from Amazon that its home surveillance company Ring will no longer facilitate warrantless requests for consumer video footage, we've decided to sunset that particular dataset."

#DaveMaass and #BerylLipton, 2024

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/atlas-surveillance-removes-ring-adds-third-party-investigative-platforms

#privacy #surveillance #Amazon #AmazonRing #EFF

Smarte Türklingel: US-Polizei soll nicht mehr so leicht an Ring-Aufnahmen kommen | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Smarte-Tuerklingel-US-Polizei-soll-nicht-mehr-so-leicht-an-Ring-Aufnahmen-kommen-9608838.html #Amazon #AmazonRing #surveillance #Überwachung #Datenschutz #privacy

Ring to Require a Warrant Before Handing Over Footage to Police https://petapixel.com/2024/01/24/ring-camera-police-request-warrant-change-neighbors-update/ #Technology #amazonring #ringcamera #News

Fascinating article on a collaboration between #AmazonRing cameras and police and fire departments across the U.S. This is a grant-funded collaborative research piece between #TheMarkup, #AfroLA, and #LATimes.

https://themarkup.org/neighborhood-watch/2023/10/11/accidental-spies-amazon-ring-owners-may-be-unknowingly-emailing-police

My personal takeaway is it really highlights the complexity of digital #privacy, #security, and #infosec. As an amateur #infosec hobbiest the negative impacts from Ring to communities and society are glaringly obvious: such as growing the divide between more privileged and less privileged classes in local communities, promoting fear, further skewing the role of police as only protecting privileged classes. This is also very intertwined with #cambridgeanalytica and related current scandals, the roll of #bigdata in #uspol, and so much more. Plus throw in all the challenges with #AI.

We can't bury our heads in the sand on this, but its such a complicated, insidious, and nefarious topic ... its really hard to communicate this to people. Just like climate change.

Lieferroboter bringen mehr #Überwachung auf den Straßen
"Sie mögen ganz süß aussehen, tragen aber zu mehr Videoüberwachung im öffentlichen Raum bei․
Moderne Technik und Sensorik in privater Hand kann zu einem weiteren Anstieg der Überwachung führen․ Jüngstes Beispiel sind Lieferroboter in den #USA, deren Videomaterial bei der #Polizei landen kann․"
https://netzpolitik.org/2023/usa-lieferroboter-bringen-mehr-ueberwachung-auf-den-strassen/
#netzpolitik #amazonring #LAPD #Lieferdienst #LosAngeles #privateÜberwachung #Roboter #ServeRobotics

Why does Patches look like Jeff Bezos in this game? #eldenring #amazonring #eldenprime

Apparently it is news that #AmazonRing and Apple #iPhones are #malware?

Amazon #Ring (but its just a few bad employees targetting #women though):
https://www.rt.com/news/577252-amazon-spying-lawsuit-settled/

Dodgy #Apple phones (its just #CIA targetting #Russians, right?)
https://www.rt.com/russia/577273-cia-hack-iphone-diplomats/

See gnu.org/malware for more.

#spyware #privacy #allPhonesAreBad #APAB

I don't own an #AmazonRing device or another video camera connected to a commercial service in "the Cloud". Still, the following article on neglect of the most basic rules of data protection leading to harm by the market-leading brand gave me pause.

#TheRegister runs
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/01/ftc_alexa_ring_amazon_settlement/

"A former employee of Amazon.com's Ring doorbell camera unit spied for months on female customers in 2017 with cameras placed in bedrooms and bathrooms, the Federal Trade Commission said in a court filing on Wednesday when it announced a $5.8 million settlement with the company over privacy violations."

#amazon #amazonring

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-ftc-sues-amazoncoms-ring-2023-05-31/

Hacker Gang Holds Amazon's Ring to Ransom

https://www.cysecurity.news/2023/03/hacker-gang-holds-amazons-ring-to-ransom.html
#Hackers #AmazonRing #CyberSecurity #DataBreach #Ransomware #CyberAttack

Ein Mann aus Ohio gab der #Polizei ausgewählte Aufnahmen seiner #AmazonRing-Kameras - doch die Polizei wollte alle, obwohl nur gegen seinen Nachbarn ermittelt wurde. Als er sich weigerte, legte die Behörde einen richterlichen Beschluss bei #Amazon #Ring vor. Das Unternehmen gab nach kurzer Widerspruchsfrist alle verfügbaren Aufnahmen an die Polizei heraus - inklusive Aufnahmen aus dem Wohnzimmer...

#ueberwachung

https://netzpolitik.org/2023/amazon-ring-selbst-wohnzimmer-aufnahmen-sind-nicht-vor-polizei-sicher/

Ein Mann aus dem US-Bundeststaat Ohio sollte der Polizei Aufnahmen aus seinem Wohnzimmer vorlegen, obwohl nur gegen seinen Nachbarn ermittelt wurde. Als er sich weigerte, legte die Behörde einen richterlichen Beschluss bei #AmazonRing vor. Das Unternehmen gab alle verfügbaren Aufnahmen an die Polizei heraus. https://netzpolitik.org/2023/amazon-ring-selbst-wohnzimmer-aufnahmen-sind-nicht-vor-polizei-sicher/

Reason #3242345243582 why you not buy or use a Ring camera -

"Larkin received a notice from Ring itself: The company had received a warrant, signed by a local judge. The notice informed him it was obligated to send footage from more than 20 cameras — whether or not Larkin was willing to share it himself."

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/privacy-loophole-ring-doorbell-00084979

#Privacy #Surveillance #AmazonRing