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Amazon reportedly filed a patent recently that suggests its Ring doorbell cameras may soon be able to identify "suspicious" people by scanning their skin texture, walking style, and voice. This represents the latest in Amazon's growing push into biometric data collection.

Jeff Bezos’ Ring doorbell company registered 17 new patents to use biometric technology to identify and report ‘suspicious’ people – here’s what we know so far

Patent awarded in October mentions facial recognition, as well as palm, finger, retina, iris, skin texture, typing, gait, voice, and odor recognition.

Thousands of people were left without working fridges, Roombas, doorbells and lighting at about 10 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday, Dec. 7, following the outage at Amazon.com Inc.'s [...]

"I'm unable to access any of my cameras...I'm literally relying on my cameras to keep me safe because I'm on bed rest," one user said in a tweet.

The California Highway Patrol directed aerial surveillance, mostly done by helicopters, over protests in Berkeley, Oakland, Palo Alto, Placerville, Riverside, Sacramento, San Francisco, and San Luis Obispo. Dragnet aerial surveillance is often unconstitutional.

For Cyber Monday, Amazon is running deals on many of its own electronic devices, including the Ring doorbell, the Fire TV Stick and the Echo Dot smart speaker.

In today’s fast moving market, homebuyer’s remorse is all too common. Here are 5 ways to avoid it.

Black Friday deals are now live at Amazon. Here are the best discounts you can get on Kindle eBook readers, Echo smart speakers and Ring home security devices.

The universe may believe in encryption, but it doesn't believe in anonymity. You're going to have to work for it.