Lansing — Sixty Michigan police and sheriff’s departments have signed agreements with Amazon letting them access footage from Amazon Ring video doorbells. Privacy experts call it a concern because such surveillance lacks regulation and transparency. The camera doorbell is like a nosy neighbor, said Dave Maass, an Electronic Frontier Foundation senior […]
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Controversial Detroit facial recognition got him arrested for a crime he didn’t commit
Michael Oliver, 26, poses for a photo in his neighborhood in Detroit on July 8, 2020. Last year, he was accused of reaching into a vehicle, grabbing a cell phone from a man then damaging it. Officials concluded Oliver had been misidentified as the perpetrator and dismissed the case. Detroit […]