Are we getting too comfortable with Amazon Ring, perhaps soon to be on security drones, delivery drones and cars.

Are we being far more comfortable with surveillance when we think we’re the only ones watching? Atlantic's Sidney Fussell along with EFF thinks, yes. I do not buy into trends like Amazon's Ring but that becomes non issue if my neighbors buy in to free or discounted Amazon Rings. While they can watch how the UPSman throw packages around, Police and who ever else are watching who comes in and out of my place as well as vehicles. Now I hear ring will be on cameras on vehicles and even on drones flying overhead. Nice it is coming all together for Amazon, the delivery drone can also watch the neighborhood.

“I’m concerned about police departments starting to imagine the public-safety infrastructure and hinging it on the whims of a company like Amazon, Are they coming in and just trying to disrupt and get quick market dominance? And then 10 years from now there’s all sorts of unforeseen [consequences] because we didn’t think through these issues when we adopted these technologies?” says Dave Maass, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s senior investigative researcher. 

In most cases, when police want to search your neighborhood, they need a warrant and a reason to believe something’s amiss. Now “reasonable suspicion” is going the way of dial-up. Fifty police departments across the United States are partnering with Amazon to collect footage from people who use Ring, the company’s internet-connected doorbell. Some are offering discounted or free Ring doorbells in exchange for a pledge to register the devices with law enforcement and submit all requested footage. Amazon has also filed patents to expand its Ring line beyond doorbells and into cameras mounted on motor vehicles, inside wearable “smart glasses,” even atop security drones that circle your home and call the police if they detect a disturbance.

Read a much more detailed account at Atlantic's Amazon Ring Will Survive the Anti-surveillance Backlash.
Are we getting too comfortable with Amazon Ring, perhaps soon to be on security drones, delivery drones, smart glasses and cars.