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Amazon Ring is upgrading: finally autonomous drones for home surveillance!
Autonomous drones don’t just fly for the military. They are now even available for home monitoring use. Unfortunately, this is not a report for April 1st, but reality. A comment.
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Autonomous drones don’t just fly for the military. They are now even available for home monitoring use. Unfortunately, this is not a report for April 1st, but reality. A comment.
There are reports like this where you can just shake your head. So, on the one hand, about how a journalist can use a drone for home surveillancehttps://www.heise.de/news/Ring-Robotics- Kamera-Drohne-ueberwacht-Wohnung...can be described satisfactorily, as if someone had just released a new printer model or an electric toothbrush.
On the other hand, about the product itself: So we have now arrived at autonomous surveillance drones for home use. Flying cameras that, coupled with the notorious Amazon video surveillance, are intended to secure your home.
Initially, the drone will only be sold in the USA. Heise states soberly:
It stays in its charging station and starts its check flights based on previously determined routes and schedules. The drone can also be integrated into an existing Ring ecosystem. Then, the Ring Drone automatically conducts an indoor inspection flight to designated points when an alarm is triggered by a Ring camera, sensor, or alarm system. There, the drone then records the surroundings through a 360-degree flight movement and sends the images to users' smartphones.
Brave new world.
https://netzpolitik.org/2023/videoueberwachung-wie-die-polizei-mit-verne...The police monitor small American towns with networked private cameras
Actually, sarcasm is out of place. Becausehttps://netzpolitik.org/tag/amazon-ring/">Amazonringhas been equipping private households with all kinds of surveillance gadgets for years - andhttps://netzpolitik.org/2019/hundredthousands-private-ueberwachungskamera...This massively increases the state's sphere of surveillance.
authorities gethttps://netzpolitik.org/2019/amazons-ring-ist-ein-einfallstor-fuer-buerg...Free monitoringof apartments, front gardens andhttps://netzpolitik.org/2023/vernetzte-dashcam-amazon-bring-ueberwachun...eatconstructed.
You can request the recordings from the citizen at the touch of a button or get them from Amazon, sometimeshttps://netzpolitik.org/2022/ueberwachungskameras-von-ring-amazon-gabe-a...judicial orderand sometimeshttps://netzpolitik.org/2023/amazon-ring-selbst-wohnzimmer-aufnahme-sin...with. Already working five years agohttps://netzpolitik.org/2021/black-lives-matter-us-polizei-ford-aufna...US authorities with Amazon in this form of surveillancetogether.
Expanding video surveillance has never been so cheap. The citizens are not protesting against it. You screw the cameras onto the wall yourself. They even pay them with joy.
Win Win Win for the surveillance state – and for Amazon.
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