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Boogaloo Bois Are Using Amazon Ring Doorbells to Protect Them From the FBI
An FBI memo says group members installed the devices after learning how a suspect killed two FBI agents by spotting them through a doorbell camera during a raid.
48 Advocacy Groups Call on the FTC to Ban Amazon Surveillance
The open letter uses Amazon as a case study to argue that corporate surveillance technologies cause immense harm and fall under the FTC's authority to ban.
Civil Rights Groups Want Tech Sites to Stop Reviewing Amazon's Ring Cameras
Civil liberties groups are asking CNET, Consumer Reports, and other tech publications to stop recommending the controversial surveillance devices.
Inside ‘TALON,’ the Nationwide Network of AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras
Hundreds of pages of emails obtained by Motherboard show how little-known company Flock has expanded from surveilling individual neighborhoods into a network of smart cameras that spans the United States.
Ring Users Gave LAPD Footage of Black Lives Matter Protests
New emails show that Ring's private surveillance network is sometimes being used by cops to surveil activities at major protests.
Amazon Ring Doorbell Hacked in Florida Swatting Incident
The troubles for Ring continue—this time involving an affair, a double homicide, and explosives...sort of.
Police Are Tapping Into Ring Cameras to Expand Surveillance Network In Mississippi
The police department in Jackson, Mississippi is partnering with two companies to stream surveillance footage from Ring cameras in a 45-day pilot program.
Amazon’s Surveillance Drones Violate FCC Rules. It's Time To Enforce Them
Home surveillance devices like Amazon Ring are already illegal, but the Republican-led FCC has done nothing to enforce its own rules.
Surveillance Startup Used Own Cameras to Harass Coworkers
Employees at Verkada accessed the company's facial recognition system to take photos of women colleagues and make sexually explicit jokes.
Amazon’s Ring Announces an Entire Line of Dystopian Surveillance Devices
Amazon announced Ring cameras for cars and a drone camera that flies around your home.
How the Thumb Ring Became So Gay
At some point over the years, a ring on the thumb became a subtle yet ubiquitous signifier for queer women.
Do Ring Cameras Violate Wiretapping Laws? New Hampshire Is About to Find Out
Prosecutors want to use audio captured by one of Amazon's home surveillance cameras as evidence in an unprecedented case.