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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.