Category: Business

Amazon shares Ring doorbell footage with law enforcement, sometimes without the user’s permission

Ring, the video doorbell from Amazon, is an increasingly popular gadget for homeowners—and, in the last year especially, a growing tool for law enforcement. In some cases, authorities received data from this tool without the user’s knowledge. In a recent letter, Amazon shared that it gave Ring footage to law enforcement 11 times this year […]

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No, submitting junk data to period tracking apps won’t protect reproductive privacy

Social media users posted ideas about how to protect people’s reproductive privacy when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, including entering “junk” data into apps designed for tracking menstrual cycles. People use period tracking apps to predict their next period, talk to their doctor about their cycle, and identify when they are fertile. Users log everything from […]

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