Truly dreadful news from our friends at Amazon.com - The house that spies on you
This device is a doorbell combined with a camera. There are obvious advantages, such as monitoring remotely who is getting close to your front door. All of it is computerized technology, of course, so that it links up to a database run by Amazon. Amazon can collect the data streamed to its servers; therefore, Amazon does collect, retain and store the data.
This is the familiar pattern whereby tech companies store data for no apparent reason, which can then be used, analyzed, shared or sold on. Not to mention the risk that a hacker gets into the system, and can then see when a family/ person is likely to be at home or not -- ideal for professional burglars.
As for having cameras in every room, say no more...
You may remember the story about the National Health Service in UK: they hold millions of data sets on patients and don't do very much with those. So, in their case, what do they do? Store the data passively. No. Sell it on to companies such as Amazon or US-based healthcare providers.
Same logic. If I have it, I will use it. It is 'anonymized' but, actually, fully accessible with a bit of ingenuity. Meanwhile, insurance companies and recruitment firms, among others, are knocking on the door, drooling at the thought of accessing such data...
All of this reminds me of the case of French police files on the French Jews during World War II, kept at Marseilles, for the benefit of the collaborationist government of the Vichy France, and the occupying Germans of course - which the French government decided to keep after the Liberation in 1945.
They were little index cards. Same as a computerized database.
The lesson is clear: if you have the data, you keep it and you stockpile it, just in case it may be useful later. The logic of it truly is sinister. With Amazon's doorbell, the data is available to the police if they want it. And you can imagine a wife spying on her husband if she suspects he's been having an affair with the neighbor's wife, etc.
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