Ring: “We don’t use facial recognition”; also Ring: “We have a head of facial recognition research” Boing Boing

One of the most obvious facts I’ve learned in covering the unfolding scandal of the secret deals between Amazon’s Ring surveillance doorbell group and hundreds of US police departments is that Amazon loooooves to play word-games. For example, I’ve been repeatedly emailed by company spokespeople to tell me that cops only get access to Ring customers’ videos if the customers offer to share it; but what they never said is that if a customer turns…

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