Amazon Ring's Familiar Faces – Perfect Privacy and Environmental Storm (opens in new tab)

Amazon's Ring Familiar Faces biometrically scans every person who approaches a Ring doorbell, performs the match in Amazon's cloud rather than on the device that could have done it locally, and stores faceprints of non-consenting strangers for up to thirty days. The architectural choice produces two independent breaches: a GDPR exposure the household-activity defence cannot reach, and an avoidable datacentre carbon cost that brings the feature within the conceptual territory of the Environmen...