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September 2, 2019 11:34 am
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Amazon's Ring May Also Be Working On Facial Recognition
"More than 10 million Ring doorbells have been installed worldwide, and BuzzFeed News found evidence that the company is working to develop facial recognition technology for its devices in Ukraine."An anonymous reader quotes their report:While Ring devices don't currently use facial recognition technology, the company's Ukraine arm appears to be working on it. "We develop semi-automated crime prevention and monitoring systems which are based on, but not limited to, face recognition," reads Ring Ukraine's website. BuzzFeed News also found a 2018 presentation from Ring Ukraine's "head of face recognition research" online and direct references to the technology on its website... In November 2018, Ring filed two patent applications that describe technology with the ability to identify "suspicious people" and create a "database of suspicious persons..." In December 2018, the Information reported that Ring gave its Ukraine-based research team access to customer videos in order to train image recognition software, potentially for use in Ring cameras. This use of customer videos is, in fact, allowed by the company's terms of service, which says that Ring has the right to unilaterally "access and use your User Recordings" for "developing new Products and Services" -- like facial recognition... As BuzzFeed News previously reported, Ring's terms of service gives the company an irrevocable, perpetual license to the video content users post on Neighbors. Buzzfeed News also quotes their op-ed last month by the deputy director of the digital rights group Fight for the Future. "We are on the verge of an unprecedented increase in state and private spying that will be built in plain sight."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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