Amazon ends controversial partnership
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Amazon’s Ring cancels partnership with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
This news comes less than a week after Ring's Super Bowl commercial stoked controversy over the company's capacity for mass surveillance.
Ring, the Amazon home-security division, ran one of the most-liked ads during Super Bowl LX: a spot promoting Search Party, a feature that helps people find lost dogs using AI to scan opt-in footage from Ring cameras in a neighborhood.
A Super Bowl ad that sought to provide a new pet-finding feature for a popular doorbell camera product instead set off alarm bells among customers who fear that the technology could undermine privacy
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Several Ring camera owners are returning their cameras to Amazon, citing a potential breach of TOS where law enforcement is using footage without permission.
Ring’s Super Bowl ad focused on how its cameras could be networked to find a missing dog, but for a lot of people, it highlighted the surveillance power hiding in those devices. Now Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.
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Amazon CEO says the pet-finder AI tool on Ring Doorbells helped bring home 99 dogs home in 90 days
Andy Jassy said Ring's Search Party feature was a "compelling" use case for AI. Amazon's Super Bowl ad for the feature was called "dystopian" by some.
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