Ring: "We don't use facial recognition"; also Ring: "We have a head of facial recognition research"

You may want it just for your home surveillance, but this is Amazon, who does things at Internet scale. Your cameras will become part of the Amazon global panopticon. One day, when you’re walking down the street in a different city, a Ring camera will note “StrawBoss at time X, position Y.” Amazon will then provide that information to the police on a nudge-nudge wink-wink basis, third-parties on a cash-money basis, and will ultimately use it themselves for their own for-profit reasons.

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