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Amazon reverses course, revokes police access to Ring footage via Neighbors app
Amazon today announced that it is end-of-lifing Request for Assistance (RFA), a controversial tool that allowed police and fire departments to request
Although Amazon markets Ring as America’s ‘new neighborhood watch,’ the technology captures and stores video from millions of households and sweeps up footage of countless bystanders who may be unaware that they are being filmed. I am particularly alarmed to learn that Ring is pursuing facial-recognition technology with the potential to flag certain individuals as suspicious based on their biometric information. Markey also cited biases in facial recognition software as a major issue, expressing concern around a disproportionate misidentification among people of color.
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