I shouldn’t have to tell anyone who reads this site regularly to avoid all Amazon Home products, but I have no doubt that more than a few of you have decided that the convenience outweighs the possible risks. You might want to reconsider the matter.
A delivery driver for Amazon misheard an automated doorbell for “racism” and reported it.
Nobody was home.
Amazon turned off all the lights, shut the entire smart home down before it even started its investigation.
Law enforcement via corporation with no due process.
It’s fascinating that it only took eight years to actually arrive at the comedic dystopia about which some were joking back in the day. I think this has also disabused those of us with libertarian inclinations of our previous imaginings about corpocratic rule being any less insidious than rule by government.