Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

kept by eddie feb 12

Amazon Ring aired a Super Bowl ad promoting its AI-powered neighborhood surveillance to find lost dogs, reigniting backlash over privacy and mass surveillance concerns.

Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
A researcher found a hardcoded ArcGIS API key exposed 53 times in Flock Safety's public code, giving unrestricted access to the mapping layers consolidating surveillance data from 12,000 deployments.
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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth is driving a workforce transformation by requiring employees to submit keystroke data for AI training and pushing costly initiatives like the metaverse.
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