surveillance Amazon's surveillance doorbell marketers help cops get warrantless access to video footage from peoples' homes Cory Doctorow
police Amazon's secret deals with local cops give them access to realtime 911 data for use in scary alerts sent to Ring owners Cory Doctorow
surveillance Amazon's secret deals with cops gave corporate PR a veto over everything the cops said about their products Cory Doctorow
Business Cisco's failure to heed whistleblower's warning about security defects in video surveillance software costs the company $8.6m in fines Cory Doctorow
surveillance Cop says Amazon told him they had "partnered" with 200 US police forces to sell and tap into Ring surveillance doorbells Cory Doctorow
surveillance Amazon struck secret deals with local cops to get them to push surveillance-camera doorbells Cory Doctorow
privacy Like Amazon, Google sends voice assistant recordings to contractors for transcription, including recordings made inadvertently Cory Doctorow
security An 14-year-old's Internet-of-Things worm is bricking shitty devices by the thousands Cory Doctorow
scholarship Machine learning classifiers are up to 20% less accurate when labeling photos from homes in poor countries Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon's facial recognition fear crusade ramps up: now they're paying Facebook to show you pictures of suspected criminals to scare you into getting a surveillance doorbell Cory Doctorow
security After elderly tenant was locked in his apartment by his landlord's stupid "smart lock," tenants win right to use actual keys to enter their homes Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon's staffing up a news vertical full of crime stories designed to scare you into buying a spying, snitching "smart" doorbell Cory Doctorow
privacy "Smart" doorlocks have policies that let landlords and third parties spy on you Cory Doctorow
security Vulnerabilities in GPS fleet-tracking tools let attackers track and immobilize cars en masse Cory Doctorow
security Nest's "ease of use" imperative plus poor integration with Google security has turned it into a hacker's playground Cory Doctorow
security Security researchers reveal defects that allow wireless hijacking of giant construction cranes, scrapers and excavators Cory Doctorow
robots Jibo the social robot announces that its VC overlords have remote-killswitched it, makes pathetic farewell address and dances a final step Cory Doctorow
floss Alias: a smart-speaker "parasite" that blocks your speaker's sensors until you activate it Cory Doctorow
security Bad security design made it easy to spy on video from Ring doorbells and insert fake video into their feeds Cory Doctorow
