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Amazon's Ring line of consumer home surveillance products has drawn quite a bit of attention in recent weeks for how easily bad actors outside the company have been able to access users' accounts. But for Ring, as with many other firms, some of the greatest security risks may come from inside the company
In response to congressional questioning, Amazon this week admitted to four incidents in the past four years where employees accessed video data they were not supposed to.
[...]Ring fired all those employees following "swift action to investigate" and told Congress that following each incident, the company "has taken multiple actions to limit such data access to a smaller number of team members." Additionally, the company said, it "periodically reviews" employees' access to data "to verify they have a continuing need for access" in order to do their jobs.
[...]"publicly available" Ring video may include more information than the customers who generated it intend. Previous reports found footage online from tens of thousands of Ring cameras nationwide sharing extremely granular coordinates that allowed reporters and researchers to generate maps of their locations.
[...]Amazon was first called on to provide answers to Congress about Ring late last fall, following news that the company had developed close partnerships with more than 400 law enforcement agencies nationwide. (As of today, the list includes 770 agencies.)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Freeman on Friday January 10 2020, @06:48PM (2 children)
I think the entire Ring system is flawed. There should be a lot more personal privacy protections in place, so things like this can never happen.
I think their company motto / practice aligns a lot more with this quote from the lord of the rings than it does with consumer protection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Ring [wikipedia.org]
Okay, so I couldn't help tweaking the saying, so sue me. Actually, please don't.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by krishnoid on Friday January 10 2020, @08:39PM (1 child)
+1 because Bezos, above all else, desires power.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday January 11 2020, @02:52AM
It's deep state shit. This isn't a problem of one man's ego, this is a problem of unelected bureaucrats implementing true Fascism -- the government takeover of industry -- except this time they're not going to tell you all about it. They'll simply point to somebody else like Alex Jones and tell you, "Look at that fascist! Punch Nazis! Deplatform fascist Nazis!"
The above is a classic Jewish trick -- accuse everybody else of what you're doing to them.