{"id":7140,"date":"2019-06-07T01:13:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T01:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7140"},"modified":"2019-06-07T01:13:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T01:13:18","slug":"amazons-home-surveillance-company-is-putting-suspected-petty-thieves-in-its-advertisements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7140","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s Home Surveillance Company Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in its Advertisements"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ring, Amazon&#8217;s doorbell company, posted a video of a woman suspected of a crime and asked users to call the cops with information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>VICE has a story about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/pajm5z\/amazon-home-surveillance-company-ring-law-enforcement-advertisements\">Amazon\u2019s Home Surveillance Company Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in its Advertisements<\/a>. The story is that Ring took out an ad which showed suspicious behaviour. A woman who is presumably innocent until proven guilty is shown clearly in order to sell more alarm systems. This information came from the police.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, it raises ethical issues around community policing. Ring has a &#8220;Neighbors&#8221; app that lets vigilantes report suspicious behaviour creating a form of digital neighbourhood watch. The article references a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/qvyvzd\/amazons-home-security-company-is-turning-everyone-into-cops\">Motherboard article<\/a> that suggests that such digital neighbourhood surveillance can lead to racism.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beyond creating a &#8220;new neighborhood watch,&#8221; Amazon and Ring are normalizing the use of video surveillance and pitting neighbors against each other. Chris Gilliard, a professor of English at Macomb Community College who studies institutional tech policy, told Motherboard in a phone call that such a \u201ccrime and safety\u201d focused platforms can actively reinforce racism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All we need now is for there to be AI in the mix. Face recognition so you can identify anyone walking past your door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ring, Amazon&#8217;s doorbell company, posted a video of a woman suspected of a crime and asked users to call the cops with information. VICE has a story about how Amazon\u2019s Home Surveillance Company Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in its Advertisements. The story is that Ring took out an ad which showed suspicious behaviour. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7140\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon\u2019s Home Surveillance Company Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in its Advertisements<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,58,27,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-media-and-news","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7141,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions\/7141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}