Social Amazon shuts down smart home after delivery driver mishears "racism" from doorbell

[White Whale]

https://www.dexerto.com/tech/amazon...driver-mishears-racism-from-doorbell-2174902/

Amazon shuts down customer's smart home for a week over 'racial slur' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...tml?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton

Amazon shuts down customer's smart home for a week after delivery driver claimed he heard racist slur through Ring doorbell - even though no one was home

Amazon reportedly shut down a customer's smart home after the delivery driver claimed he heard a racial slur coming through the doorbell, even though no one was home.

Brandon Jackson, of Baltimore, Maryland, came home on May 25 to find that he had been locked out of his Amazon Echo, which many devices, including his lights, are connected to.

He would later learn that Amazon locked him out of his account after a delivery driver dropped off a package the day before. Jackson, an engineer at Microsoft, said 'everything seemed fine' after the package arrived at his home and had initially thought he was locked out because someone had tried to 'access my account repeatedly, triggering a lockout.'

Some delivery driver got triggered by a doorbell and caused a guy's house to be shutdown for a week.

What a brave new world. I will not be having a smart home or devices if some company can shut them down for any reason whether true or not.

 

[mkess101]

Do they have a dog? Maybe the driver felt the dog was barking in a racist manner?

 

[HockeyBjj]

Anyone using those devices gets what they get imo

If you want one so that you can verbally ask google questions instead of typing on your phone or laptop, fine. But to link them to physical control of your home is just asking for trouble

 

[HockeyBjj]

There is also this aspect. People are soft, and tech is just enabling it ever more

 

[IDGETKTFO]

Whats next, is amazon gonna shut down my amazon music account when i call Alexa racial slurs?

 

[WhiteMousse]

Anyone using those devices gets what they get imo

If you want one so that you can verbally ask google questions instead of typing on your phone or laptop, fine. But to link them to physical control of your home is just asking for trouble

Dude what the hell. Seriously.

Your response to politically weaponizing electronics is to say "lol you deserve what you get"? You're completely skirting the issue. A corporation is withholding paid services because someone thought that maybe someone said something in their own fucking home. And your response is to say that the person to whom this was done is the problem?

I wouldn't link my lights and appliances to the internet either, but that's really not the point, is it?

 

[fungi]

Wall-e predicted that shite.

 

[Michaelangelo]

Only a matter of time before A.I. became racist

 

[fungi]

Dude what the hell. Seriously.

Your response to politically weaponizing electronics is to say "lol you deserve what you get"? You're completely skirting the issue. A corporation is withholding paid services because someone thought that maybe someone said something in their own fucking home. And your response is to say that the person to whom this was done is the problem?

I wouldn't link my lights and appliances to the internet either, but that's really not the point, is it?

It is.
You bring "smart" appliances into your house, it's your fault if the evil corporation takes control of them. You bought them.

 

[The Big Yin]

Anyone who has one of these glorified communist listening devices has rocks in their head.

 

[Rational Poster]

dexetro is the biggest piece of trash website on the internet.

It's literally written by and for children. I have to block that shit every time it comes up.

So fucking trash.

 

[WhiteMousse]

It is.
You bring "smart" appliances into your house, it's your fault if the evil corporation takes control of them. You bought them.

Well like I said, I don't think that people should buy appliances from evil corporations.

Do you think that Amazon would ever, for any reason, NOT desire a setup where you were only able to buy products from them? Like I said--- the issue of buying stuff from corporations like this is an issue, but it's a different issue than the one here

 

[Jar of Flies]

So what I’m getting is anyone can contact Amazon, give them a random user’s address saying racism was communicated through the doorbell and Amazon will shut it down no questions asked? Seems like there should be more to that process.

 

[fungi]

Well like I said, I don't think that people should buy appliances from evil corporations.

Do you think that Amazon would ever, for any reason, NOT desire a setup where you were only able to buy products from them? Like I said--- the issue of buying stuff from corporations like this is an issue, but it's a different issue than the one here

Politically weaponizing electronics...
Is that your main concern?

If it is, it's too late.

"Social credit score" by CCP is a rookie compared to "free, democratic" trans-national corporate "self-promoted" policies.

"Thought police" is here. For real.

Next gadget, "apple vision pro" will track user's eye movements, iris aperture size, measure time user's gaze stays on each image/word/video, and will read user's mind, figuratively speaking.

AND idiots will camp in 3-day lines to buy those.

Whom should we blame for that? The Apple? Or the morons who buy that shit up?

 

[ShadowRun]

Whats next, is amazon gonna shut down my amazon music account when i call Alexa racial slurs?

Alexa play Tupac Hit em up ...

"playing tupac hit em up"

 

[Ichibanner]

Installs listening and control devices in home that random strangers can use and control.

Is shocked and disappointed by the eventual outcome.......

LOL at the world we live in.

 

[HARRISON_3]

Kinda reminds me of that door to door salesman caught on a Ring cam using the n word.

Yikes

 

[oldshadow]

Not a smart idea to let anyone control anything for your home from the outside unless absolutely necessary.

 

[WhiteMousse]

Politically weaponizing electronics...
Is that your main concern?

If it is, it's too late.

"Social credit score" by CCP is a rookie compared to "free, democratic" trans-national corporate "self-promoted" policies.

Thought police is here. For real.

Next gadget, "apple vision pro" will track user's eye movements, iris aperture size, measure time user's gaze stays on each image/word/video, and will figuratevily speaking read user's mind.

AND idiots will camp in 3-day lines to buy those.

Whom should we blame for that? The Apple? Or the morons who buy that shit up?

Dude like I said. It's a separate issue.

Jesus let me just give you what you want. People should pay damn close attention to what they're buying, and to whom they're giving their money for what services. I think if you think that Disney is a woke company bent on corrupting children, you shouldn't give them money for Disney plus or the themeparks, even if you have a favorite Disney movie that hasn't been butchered. And if you're worried about Amazon listening in on your conversations, or having control over the devices that you buy, you shouldn't buy them.

And I'll go even a step further and say that ultimately that is the best tangible first step we can make. Like I can't tank Amazon's growing share of the general market but I can control my own contribution to it.

But the fact that thought police is here, shouldn't cause us to accept or acquiesce to it. It makes no sense for its proliferation to somehow change the source of blame for this specific incident or any other such.

What happens if God forbid they get a monopoly on goods, appliances and services? I'll ask the question again-- do you think the reason they haven't done that yet is just because they aren't interested in that? What would we say then? Just don't have technology at all? Wouldn't that put us at even more of a disadvantage?

 

[Fox by the Sea]

Alexa, send the pacifying and dismemberment friendship drones to the address.