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Amazon sued over Ring facial recognition feature (mashable.com)

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Amazon has just been hit with a class-action lawsuit over its controversial facial recognition feature in Ring video doorbell cameras.

The lawsuit was filed on Monday in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt. The suit seeks $5 million in damages.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

This is the crux of the issue. Every device equipped with a camera or microphone and a wireless connection is profiling you and sending your data to government databases without a warrant. We know this definitively because of the video footage in the Guthrie kidnapping that the FBI released, footage that shouldn't have existed in the first place.

And there's not a whole lot you can do about it, as you presumably have to step outside at some point, and you have no control over the devices your neighbors decide to use outdoors.