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Your Neighbor’s Doorbell Scanned Your Face (Ring Familiar Faces AI)

Silicon Cowboy · 8 months ago

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Amazon’s Ring cameras just rolled out facial recognition technology across the US and Canada. If you walk past a Ring doorbell, your face gets scanned and stored without your knowledge or consent. Chapters 0:00 - Intro 0:20 - What is Familiar Faces 0:49 - The Privacy Problem 1:42 - How it Actually Works 1:55 - Where it’s Blocked 2:21 -…

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Silicon Cowboy, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.