Amazon facial recognition software raises privacy concerns with the ACLU... “People should be free to walk down the street without being watched by the government,” ACLU attorney Matt Cagle writes in a post tied to the news. “By automating mass surveillance, facial recognition systems like Rekognition threaten this freedom, posing a particular threat to communities already
Amazon can now deliver to car trunks... Axios | 2018-04-24 14:35 UTC Amazon announced Thursday it is launching a new service that will deliver packages to trunks of GM and Volvo cars in 37 cities by leveraging connected technologies installed in many cars today, The Verge reports . Flashback: Last year Amazon got some Prim
Amazon Filed Patent to De-Anonymize Bitcoin Transactions... Dark City Crypto reports that in 2014, Amazon applied for a patent that would help de-anonymize cryptocurrency transactions. They would then sell that information to law enforcement and government agencies. Although Bitcoin was never meant to be totally p
How Amazon Can Blow Up Asset Management... If you buy physical and digital products from Amazon, would you consider buying financial products as well? 70% of U.S. households trust Amazon enough to be Prime members (Consumer Intelligence Research Partne