After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model.

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Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach ...

Companies like to make metadata sound innocuous, but it matters more than you might think. Here’s why.

Why Communication Metadata Matters

As its name suggests, metadata is data about data. Metadata is used in a variety of contexts, often for cataloging information, like tagging keywor...