Amazon’s new flying home security camera met with privacy concerns

OTI policy director Sharon Bradford Franklin is quoted in The Ticker discussing the potential dangers of home camera systems and their potential implications on data privacy and surveillance.

Despite the uproar, consumers bought Ring cameras thinking it would be useful in home protection. Sharon Bradford Franklin, policy director of New America's Open Technology Institute, a nonprofit that advocates for digital rights, disagreed.

“While providing secure cloud storage does not appear to pose privacy threats, providing a package of technologies that includes powerful surveillance tools like facial recognition and doorbell cameras, plus the capability to pool data into a massive database and run data analytics, does create very real privacy threats,” Franklin said.