{"id":4054,"date":"2022-08-09T19:34:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2022\/08\/09\/privacy-news-august-9\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T19:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:34:27","slug":"privacy-news-august-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2022\/08\/09\/privacy-news-august-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy News August 9: StopShotspotter Week of Action and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tell ShotSpotter: Stop selling surveillance<\/a><\/h3>\n

MPower Change on New Mode (act.newmode.net)<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the Stop Shotspotter coalition<\/a> kicked off a National Week of Action against ShotSpotter, an audio surveillance company that is deployed in Black, Brown, and poor neighborhoods around the country and targets them for more policing. <\/p>\n

ShotSpotter technology regularly sends police, falsely expecting to find gunshots, into the Black, brown, and poor communities where your microphones are embedded. <\/strong>Instead of preventing gun violence, ShotSpotter tech profits from it….<\/p>\n

ShotSpotter makes everyone in our communities less safe by increasing the number of heightened and harmful interactions with police. Majority Black, brown, and poor communities are already impacted by racist violence by police, and ShotSpotter technology helps further it….<\/p>\n

Independent research has found that police deployments in response to ShotSpotter alerts fail to result in any evidence of a gun crime about 90% of the time. But we know that ShotSpotter has never released any detailed data or peer-reviewed analyses of its technology\u2019s benefits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TAKE ACTION: Sign the petition<\/a>!<\/p>\n

FIND OUT MORE: On Thursday, August 11th at 4:30 pm Pacific (7:30 pm Eastern)<\/strong>, \u00a0The People\u2019s Earnings Call<\/a><\/strong>, with organizers from campaigns across the country, to talk about how ShotSpotter business financially impacts our communities.<\/p>\n

Amazon bought the company that makes the Roomba. Antitrust researchers and data-privacy experts say it\u2019s \u2018the most dangerous, threatening acquisition in the company\u2019s history\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n

Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert on Insider (businessinsider.com)<\/p>\n

Yeah really. \u00a0Great headline! \u00a0Khari Johnson’s Amazon\u2019s iRobot Deal Would Give It Maps Inside Millions of Homes<\/a> gives the context:<\/p>\n

Combined with other recent acquisition targets, Amazon could wind up with a comprehensive look at what\u2019s happening inside people\u2019s homes. The ecommerce giant acquired video doorbell company Ring in 2018<\/a> and Wi-Fi router-maker Eero a year later<\/a>. Speakers and other devices with AI assistant Alexa<\/a> can now control thousands of smart home devices, including Roomba vacuums. And Amazon plans to acquire primary care chain One Medical in a $3.49 billion all-cash deal, which if approved would put the health data of millions in its keeping.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople tend to think of Amazon as an online seller company, but really Amazon is a surveillance company. That is the core of its business model, and that\u2019s what drives its monopoly power and profit,\u201d says Evan Greer, director of the nonprofit digital rights organization Fight for the Future. \u201cAmazon wants to have its hands everywhere, and acquiring a company that\u2019s essentially built on mapping the inside of people\u2019s homes seems like a natural extension of the surveillance reach that Amazon already has.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MORE COVERAGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n