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"The latest disclosures, released this week by Markey, indicate that Ring’s new facial recognition feature, “Familiar Faces,” launched this week despite what Markey calls “reckless” failures to safeguard the biometric data of people who are unknowingly scanned."

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Ring faces new scrutiny as lawmaker warns of biometric surveillance crisis

The feature is optional and disabled by default, but once activated it scans all faces in view, whether those individuals have consented.
Anthony Kimery (BiometricUpdate.com)
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AI6YR Ben
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*** Your face is going into Ring's database and being cross correlated every time you visit someone with a Ring camera, apparently. 😬 😡
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Future "Ring for LEO" feature undoubtely will be unwarranted surveillance, i.e. "Here's a photo of Bob. Give us the history of all the times you have spotted Bob on Ring cameras, ever, with dates and times!"

Triggered by "Look, Bob is on a watch list, he attended a No Kings protest. Let's see all the people he has visited and add them as a collaborator for the US domestic terror list."

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