Orwell at your doorbell: Amazon Ring captures private moments and controls what the public is told

“It’s one thing to worry about suspicious neighbors looking out between their curtains,” said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the speech, privacy and technology project at the ACLU. “It’s another if you are being recorded and potentially being reported to the police, and that’s especially true if you are a person of color or somebody else who is often cast as somebody who is, quote/unquote, ‘suspicious’ due to biases or prejudices.”