Amazon-owned Ring is producing a new home security camera that can fly around your house and film you. No, we’re not kidding, that’s actually what it’s built to do. And you'll have to pay $249.99 for the privilege. The Always Home Cam, which Amazon announced today at its virtual hardware show, is an autonomous drone. It rests in a cute white docking system until you’re ready for it to buzz to life and can return there to charge once its job is done. If you feel the hairs on the back of your neck stand to attention at the thought of an Amazon-powered drone following you around the house, you’re not alone. Amazon knows this and included features to make you feel less weird about it. But we still feel weird about it. And we can't help worrying about the potential for misuse and abuse, not just by Ring, Amazon, hackers, or law enforcement, but by abusive and controlling partners intent on tracking other people's every move in the one place they ought to feel safe: their own homes. [...] The Always Home Cam is fully autonomous. You can teach it the layout of your house and let it do its own thing if you want, or you can take control and fly it to a specific area of your house. Can’t remember whether or not you turned the burner off before you left? Fly your Always Home Cam to the kitchen and check if anything’s burned down. [...] Still, though, the idea of purchasing a camera that can fly around and surveil our abodes gives us the creeps, and it coming from Amazon only worsens matters. The feeling is only compounded by Ring’s history of less-than-stellar user privacy — the company’s devices have been hacked on more than one occasion, its users’ passwords have been leaked on the dark web, and we’ve seen some damning reports about third-party tracking abilities through the devices, too. The privacy negligence reached such a level last year that the federal government sued Ring over it. Tratto da https://www.inputmag.com/tech/amazon-wants-to-put-a-ring-always-home-cam-dro... Giacomo