Gary Horcher reports: A Portland, Oregon, family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon’s Alexa – the voice-controlled smart speaker – and the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s [Read More…]
Joe Cadillic writes: Two days ago NPR revealed that the Orlando Police Department is using Amazon’s facial recognition to identify people’s faces. Earlier this year, the ACLU sent an FOI request to the police department asking for more information about Amazon Rekognition. The title the police gave to the ACLU’s [Read More…]
Sam Biddle writes: What’s the best way to keep adults from questioning the use of a deeply problematic product? Get them started when they’re too young to question anything. Amazon has a new addition to its line of voice-commanded artificial intelligence Alexa assistants, marketed for use by children as young as 5 years old, [Read More…]
Ed Hasbrouck writes: The state of Alaska has sent us a whopper of a “the records you have requested do not exist” response to one of our attempts to find out about government oversight (or lack thereof) of the private contractor operating the national ID database created to implement the [Read More…]