Ring's Neighbors app exposed users' home addresses, locations due to security flaw
Ring's Neighbors app exposed users' home addresses and specific locations before the company became aware of the security issue.
Jan 18, 2021
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Wacky indoor Amazon drone takes on privacy skeptics
It could be the wackiest product yet from Amazon—a tiny indoor drone which buzzes around people's homes as a security sentry.
Oct 2, 2020
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Google workers demand the company stop selling its tech to police
More than 1,600 Google workers are demanding the company "take real steps to help dismantle racism" and end its police contracts. In a letter that began circulating internally last week, workers wrote that they were "disappointed ...
Jun 23, 2020
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IBM quits facial recognition, joins call for police reforms
IBM is getting out of the facial recognition business, saying it's concerned about how the technology can be used for mass surveillance and racial profiling.
Jun 9, 2020
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Canada privacy watchdog probes facial recognition startup
Canada's privacy watchdog on Friday announced an investigation into a US software startup reportedly capable of matching images of unknown faces to photos it mined from millions of websites and social media networks.
Feb 21, 2020
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Groups call on Chicago mayor to ban city's use of facial recognition technology
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot should ban the city's use of facial recognition technology of the kind the Chicago Police Department utilizes on the grounds it's racially biased and an invasion of residents' privacy, a group ...
Feb 5, 2020
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One ring to rule them all: Surveillance 'smart' tech won't make Canadian cities safer
Last fall, Drew Dilkens, the mayor of Windsor, Ont., set out to make the city the first Canadian urban center to connect to the Amazon Ring network, which the company calls "the new neighborhood watch."
Jan 22, 2020
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Why some cities and states balk at face recognition tech
Police departments around the U.S. are asking citizens to trust them to use facial recognition software as another handy tool in their crime-fighting toolbox. But some lawmakers—and even some technology giants—are hitting ...
Dec 17, 2019
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Latest ransomware victim, New Orleans crippled by attack
City services in New Orleans were hobbled Monday as the city operated under an emergency declaration following a cyber attack that locked down its main computer networks.
Dec 16, 2019
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Amazon tells senator it's considered face-scanning doorbells
Amazon says it has considered adding facial recognition technology to its Ring doorbell cameras.
Nov 19, 2019
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