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Amazon smart glasses to map neighbourhoods via AI
Original: "Amazon's smart glasses feed an AI that maps neighbourhoods, and the images can be obtained with a warrant. It wants 5,0
Amazon plans to have around 5,000 delivery drivers wearing AI-powered smart glasses by the end of the year. The devices capture footage of surroundings that feeds an artificial intelligence system mapping neighbourhoods, and the recorded images can be obtained by law enforcement with a warrant. Critics online are raising surveillance and privacy concerns, with some calling for a boycott of Amazon over the programme.
Why now: The scale of the rollout and the prospect of police access to the captured footage are raising fresh privacy and surveillance concerns.
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