{"id":68872,"date":"2019-12-02T09:08:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T14:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=68872"},"modified":"2019-12-02T09:45:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T14:45:46","slug":"amazons-ring-planned-neighborhood-watch-lists-built-on-facial-recognition-biddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/12\/02\/amazons-ring-planned-neighborhood-watch-lists-built-on-facial-recognition-biddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon’s Ring planned neighborhood “watch lists” built on facial recognition [Biddle]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon’s Ring planned neighborhood “watch lists” built on facial recognition<\/strong><\/a> — from theintercept.com by Sam Biddle<\/p>\n

Excerpts (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Ring, Amazon’s crime-fighting surveillance camera division, has crafted plans to use facial recognition software and its ever-expanding network of home security cameras to create AI-enabled neighborhood \u201cwatch lists,\u201d according to internal documents reviewed by The Intercept.
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Previous reporting by The Intercept\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0The Information<\/a>\u00a0revealed that Ring has at times struggled to make facial recognition work, instead relying on remote workers from Ring\u2019s Ukraine office<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0to manually \u201ctag\u201d people and objects found in customer video feeds.
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\nLegal scholars have long criticized the use of governmental watch lists in the United States for their potential to ensnare innocent people without due process. \u201cWhen corporations create them,\u201d said Tajsar, \u201cthe dangers are even more stark.\u201d<\/span><\/strong> As difficult as it can be to obtain answers on the how and why behind a federal blacklist, American tech firms can work with even greater opacity: \u201cCorporations often operate in an environment free from even the most basic regulation, without any transparency, with little oversight into how their products are built and used, and with no regulated mechanism to correct errors,\u201d<\/span><\/strong> Tajsar said.<\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nThose working or teaching within the legal realm — this one’s for you. But it’s also for the leadership of the C-Suites in our corporate world — as well as for all of those programmers, freelancers, engineers, and\/or other employees working on AI within the corporate world.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the way, and not to get all political here…but who’s to say what happens with our data when it’s being reviewed in Ukraine…?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n