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Amazon's Ring ambitions raise neighbourly surveillance fears

Original: Amazon’s Ring wants to replace local WhatsApp groups. It’s a recipe for curtain-twitching disaster

Amazon's Ring is moving to replace local WhatsApp and neighbourhood groups with its own community platform, prompting criticism that it could turn neighbourhoods into networks of mutual suspicion. Commentators warn the shift would encourage 'curtain-twitching' behaviour, with residents reporting each other's activities rather than simply sharing local news, concerns about deliveries or lost pets.

Why now: A major tech company expanding from doorbell cameras into community social networking raises fresh privacy and surveillance concerns.

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