Pointed out that Amazon's surveillance camera ``Ring'' can identify the location information of the camera regardless of the user's intention
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Ring's Neighbors Data Let Us Map Amazon's Home Surveillance Network
https://gizmodo.com/ring-s-hidden-data-let-us-map-amazons-sprawling-home-su-1840312279
With millions of users in the U.S., Neighbors is touted as a tool for receiving real-time crime and safety alerts from local law enforcement agencies. In cities where police and Ring have partnered, officers can request access to movies shot with Ring through a special law enforcement portal. You can also choose a date, time and location on the map to alert Neighbors users near your camera.
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A Ring spokesperson said, ``The exact location of users using Ring is obfuscated unless the user allows the location to be communicated to the police.'' However, Gizmodo decodes the supposedly obfuscated location information and creates a detailed map showing the location of tens of thousands of Ring cameras located in 15 cities, including Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle, Oakland, Boston and Chicago. was successful.
According to Gizmodo, although it was part of the Ring terminal that was able to acquire the location information, the map shows 'the user's Ring who allowed to tell the police the location information' using the Neighbors app. Instead, it is only 'Ring of the user who allowed to share the movie'. In the approximately 500 days Gizmodo investigated, we were unable to obtain camera location information for Ring owners who did not share movies with Neighbors. Gizmodo's discovery is estimated at up to 20,000 Rings.
A Ring spokesperson did not refute Gizmodo's claim that ``if someone uses the same data obtained by Gizmodo, they can pinpoint the exact location of the user's home.'' Only movies that Neighbors users choose to share on Neighbors are exposed to the Neighbors app and local law enforcement agencies.' According to a spokesperson, Ring uses a combination of
At the time of writing the article, various movies are posted from Neighbors in real time from all over the United States. For example, there are movies that show children and young people, and some movies of people who have sex. You can also check movies about immigration and customs clearance.
On the Ring website , alerts can be shared between users using Neighbors within a selected range. However, most users are likely to assume that their posted movies are only shared with nearby Neighbors users, rather than alerts, and include precise location information to ensure that user posted movies are on Earth. I'm not sure if users understand that anyone can easily browse from anywhere above.
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The Guardian reports in August 2019 that Ring shared a map with police depicting the locations of active Ring cameras . CNET also reported in December 2019, citing official documents, that Ring-affiliated police were granted access to 'heat maps' that reflected areas where cameras were concentrated . .
Privacy researcher Shreyas Gundl, who looked at the heatmaps, found that if you zoomed in on the heatmaps, you would see circles around each individual camera. However, a Ring spokesperson said the map was an indication of 'approximate device density,' and also clarified that police had been instructed not to share the heatmap publicly. .
Ring said there was 'no problem' with showing people in the kind of footage used for general surveillance, much like Google did with millions of people's faces on Street View in 2007. No,” he claimed. However, not everyone agrees with Ring's claims.
“If most people are being pursued 24/7 by police officers and private investigators, who wouldn’t mind or complain? And you could say it's done invisibly,' said Jay Stanley, an analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union . “It makes it easier to just go out and take a picture of you walking down the sidewalk and put it on the front page of tomorrow's morning paper,” says Stanley.
Stanley describes Ring as 'the very act of being outside being constantly recorded by a stranger,' and this long-term observational state fundamentally alters people's natural behavior. I also point out that it is possible. Mr. Stanley fears that 'in the history so far, it will bring about effects that the human species has never experienced.'
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Ring's guidelines require users to respect 'the privacy of others' and not upload movies of 'personal or privacy-related activities.' When the Ring administrator operates the service in accordance with the guidelines, we will check the videos posted on the platform and will appropriately remove “inappropriate” videos that record “personal or privacy-related activities” that violate the guidelines. It is OK to delete it. However, no such content was actually audited at the time of writing, and according to Gizmodo, dozens of young users in Washington, D.C., use Neighbors to post child pranks and selfies. that's right.
Angel Diaz, an attorney at the Brennan Judiciary Center , said of the sheer size and scope of the data Ring could provide: 'Just a picture of someone walking past your house doesn't tell you much. 'If you can get information from the whole system that can identify people who move around, you will know where they live, where they work, and where they go.'
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