#amazon ring

[follow-up-news]

The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access. In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its employees and contractors to access customers’ private videos. Ring allegedly used such footage to train algorithms without consent, among other purposes. Ring was also charged with failing to implement key security protections, which enabled hackers to take control of customers’ accounts, cameras and videos. This led to “egregious violations of users’ privacy,” the FTC noted. The resulting settlement required Ring to delete content that was found to be unlawfully obtained, establish stronger security protections and pay a hefty fine. The FTC says that it’s now using much of that money to refund eligible Ring customers. According to a Tuesday notice, the FTC is sending 117,044 PayPal payments to impacted consumers who had certain types of Ring devices — including indoor cameras — during the timeframes that the regulators allege unauthorized access took place. Eligible customers will need to redeem these payments within 30 days, according to the FTC — which added that consumers can contact this case’s refund administrator, Rust Consulting, or visit the FTC’s FAQ page on refunds for more information about the process.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

Real-time surveillance center to utilize life feeds from home security cameras. What could go wrong? 🤔

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/lapd-plans-to-include-private-cameras-in-10k-strong-surveillance-network

#LAPD #PoliceStateUSSA #TheFreeThoughtProject

[xipiti]

Washington (CNN Business)Amazon's smart-doorbell company, Ring, has provided surveillance footage to law enforcement without a warrant or the consent of doorbell-owners 11 times this year alone, according to a letter Amazon (AMZN (AMZN)) sent to Congress earlier this month.

The disclosure highlights the degree of Amazon's control over data generated by the doorbells' cameras and microphones, as well as its deepening relationships with thousands of police departments across the country.

The July 1 letter responding to questions by Sen. Ed Markey and made public by his office on Wednesday shows that Ring frequently makes its own "good-faith determinations" as to whether to provide surveillance data to law enforcement absent a warrant or the consent of the doorbell owner.

Under its policies, Ring "reserves the right to respond immediately to urgent law enforcement requests for information in cases involving imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to any person," the letter read. The company also requires police to fill out a special "emergency request form" if there is an urgent need to bypass the normal law enforcement process, according to the letter.

In each of the 11 cases this year, Amazon's VP of Public Policy Brian Huseman wrote, Ring determined that the police requests met the imminent-danger threshold and provided the information "without delay."

Huseman's letter said Ring currently partners with 2,161 law enforcement agencies (and 455 fire departments) that can request surveillance data from Ring doorbells — a figure that Markey, in a release, said represented a five-fold increase from November 2019.

[gwydionmisha]

This surprises me not at all, unfortunately.

[lacomikeria]

Alexa y Ring le dan la bienvenida a Jaime Maussan y ponen a prueba el conocimiento en aliens de los mexicanos

El periodista Jaime Maussan comenta que el 80% de los seres no humanos han sido captados con cámaras de seguridad. El reconocido periodista Jaime Maussan, creador de “Los Vigilantes de los Cielos”, comenta que el 80% de los seres no humanos han sido captados con cámaras de seguridad, ya que estos son invisibles a los ojos humanos. De acuerdo con una reciente encuesta realizada por Ring, el 98%…

[therealharbingerofdevastation]

Do you ever think about how Tolkien’s vision of the greatest evil in the universe was something he referred to as “The Machine” which was his way of talking about accelerated industrialism and mass surveillance and he wrote multiple books where the main villains were a dragon who sits on a huge pile of treasure that he never intends to use but incinerates anyone who comes near it, a man in a giant tower who’s wrecking the environment with his factories, and an evil being who uses what’s essentially a listening device to control the citizens of middle earth. And now Amazon is making a Tolkien show. Do you ever think about that.

[thescoopess]

Best Amazon Prime Day 2023 Deals — Plus the Best Early Deals

Amazon Amazon’s biggest sale event of the year is just a few days away. Amazon announced the event will be held on July 11 and 12, 2023. And it’s never too early to start preparing — and start making your wish list. Amazon Prime Day 2023 will begin at 12 AM PT/3 AM ET on Tuesday, July 11th, and end on Wednesday, July 12th. Keep reading for all the best early deals, and what we know about Prime…

[ariminiria]

remember to do your part by giving Amazon's Rings of Power show the Morbius treatment

[thethirdtreeofvalinor]

me after reanimating the corpse of tolkien: so later on in the show, galadriel’s new bestie, halbrand, is revealed to be sauron, which kind of erases celebrimbor as a character and his contribution to the main conflict

tolkien: that’s what you’re worried about when two of the beatles are still living? go finish the job

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

(source, 11/30/22)

KING

[potato-dragons]

You know... I really thought I was crazy about how ROP's costumes look so shitty until I came across pic below of this character and saw she's actually wearing a long-sleeved shirt underneath her chestplate with the exact same gold scale design printed on.

Remember folks, the budget of this show is half a billion dollars compared to Peter's Jackson Lord of the Rings 250 million budget released twenty years ago and still looking beautiful.

[wastelandbaby7]

Apparently some twitter users assumed that @neil-gaiman created Rings of Power.

[lacomikeria]

RING EXPONE QUE EL 98 % DE LOS MEXICANOS CREEN EN ALIENS

Una encuesta de Ring revela datos sobre los mexicanos y sus creencias en aliens. El 39% cree haber presenciado un avistamiento de ovnis al menos una vez en su vida. El 26 de abril se ha declarado oficialmente como el Día del Alien y el último eclipse dejó preparado el ambiente para recibir más información del cosmos. Por ese motivo Ring, la compañía de seguridad para el hogar de Amazon, realizó…

[fukutomichi]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power / S1 / 2 Sep. 2022 - 14 Oct. 2022 Lloyd Owen as Captain Elendil