The Return of (Amazon) Ring

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?You can follow Lauren Bridges on Twitter @Laurenebridges, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast on @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5XAll episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production to the show, visit: bit.ly/3AApPN4Articles 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)For more articles, sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5XNowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Is social media really destroying democracy? Should Facebook be considered a public utility? How does cryptocurrency affect state sovereignty? And what exactly is surveillance capitalism? For all your political questions about tech, this is The Anti-Dystopians.The Anti-Dystopians is hosted and produced by Alina Utrata. All episodes are freely available, wherever you get your podcasts. Follow the show on Twitter @AntiDystopians.To support the show, visit: bit.ly/3AApPN4To subscribe to the email newsletter, visit: bit.ly/3kuGM5X Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.