An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: This is not a drill. Red alert: The police surveillance center in Jackson, Mississippi, will be conducting a 45-day pilot program to live stream the Amazon Ring cameras of participating residents. Now, our worst fears have been confirmed. Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have started a pilot program that would allow…
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‘Ring’ Upgrades Privacy Settings After Accusations It Shares Data With Facebook and Google
Amazon’s Ring doorbell cameras just added two new privacy and security features “amid rising scrutiny on the company,” reports The Hill, including “a second layer of authentication by requiring users to enter a one-time code shared via email or SMS when they try to log in to see the feed from their cameras starting this week… “Until recently the company did…