Jacob Snow, a technology and civil liberties attorney for the ACLU, has been making the rounds telling media outlets that a newly publicized patent from Amazon paints a picture of a dystopian, “nightmarish” future. Strong words for a patent application that’s starting to make headlines over fears that Amazon could use the Ring doorbell camera company it acquired to build a robust tool for creepy surveillance.
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Amazon patent hints at using doorbell cameras to build a suspicious persons database originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 22:05:59 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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