Alina Utrata speaks with Lauren Bridges, a PhD candidate at the the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania who studies big data infrastructures and surveillance regimes. They talk all about Amazon Ring: Why does Amazon want footage of your front door anyways? How is this surveillance shared with law enforcement agencies across the country? Where does this surveillance fit in with racialized notions of crime and policing? And what happens when Amazon Ring is hacked?

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Articles by Lauren:

Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen (Guardian Op-ed)

Infrastructural obfuscation: unpacking the carceral logics of the Ring surveillant assemblage (Academic Article)

Other articles:

Who is Amazon? (Anti-Dystopians Podcast)

A Black Woman Invented Home Security. Why Did It Go So Wrong? By Chris Gilliard (Wired)

The IRS Should Stop Using Facial Recognition by Joy Buolamwini (The Atlantic)

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Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-land

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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