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\nA Ring video doorbell, which currently doesn't use facial recognition software.<\/p>\n

Chris Monroe\/CNET <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ring, Amazon's video doorbell company, filed two facial recognition-related patent applications this year that have already been criticized in regard to civil liberties.<\/p>\n

The company, which Amazon acquired in April, filed two patent applications that became public in recent weeks. Both consider ways of using Ring's devices to recognize "suspicious" people in a neighborhood and then automatically alert law enforcement. Such people are described as convicted felons, sex offenders or people on a "most wanted" list.<\/p>\n

Ring's doorbells don't currently use facial recognition software to detect specific people. Google's Nest Hello video doorbells already include facial recognition software<\/a> to detect friends and relatives, but they don't include connection to law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Amazon representatives didn't respond to a request for comment but told The Washington Post that Amazon regularly files forward-looking patent applications that consider new, potential tech. The spokesperson added that patent applications don't necessarily reflect development plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The applications raise fresh concerns about tech companies' early use of facial recognition software. The American Civil Liberties Union has repeatedly criticized<\/a> the technology's use, in particular by Amazon, saying it could create an unjust surveillance state that could target political activists and those unfairly deemed a threat to the public.<\/p>\n

The applications aren't the only controversial pieces of paperwork to come out of the US Patent and Trademark Office this year. For instance, Walmart was criticized in July for gaining a patent to eavesdrop on shoppers and employees<\/a> in stores. The new concept hasn't been implemented in Walmart stores and Walmart didn't say whether it ever would be.<\/p>\n

The ACLU this week raised concerns about Ring's patent applications.<\/p>\n

"Amazon is dreaming of a dangerous future," the ACLU's Jacob Snow said in a statement, "with its technology at the center of a massive decentralized surveillance network, running real-time facial recognition on members of the public<\/a> using cameras installed in people's doorbells."<\/p>\n

In late November, CNN reported on one of the applications, which pertained to creating composite images<\/a> of someone's partially seen face using multiple cameras<\/a>. There's a second application with similar language included that involves using Ring devices to communicate with police<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In one of the filings, Ring lays out how the facial recognition alert would work:<\/p>\n

\nA video may be analyzed by an A\/V recording and communication device that recorded the video (and\/or by one or more backend servers) to determine whether the video contains a known criminal (e.g., convicted felon, sex offender, person on a "most wanted" list, etc.) or a suspicious person. Some of the present embodiments may automatically submit such a video stream to the law enforcement agencies.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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