Amazon AWS Panorama workplace surveillance
Occurred: December 2020
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Amazon Web Service is launching AWS Panorama, a new service that enables the automated analysis of workplace security camera footage.
Amazon says Panorama can be used to 'evaluate manufacturing quality, identify bottlenecks in industrial processes, and monitor workplace safety and security.'
However, as the BBC points out, the service can be used to monitor people as well as goods, raising concerns about workplace privacy and surveillance.
Operator: Amazon
Developer: Amazon
Country: USA
Sector: Business/professional services
Purpose: Assess product quality; Monitor workplace safety & security
Technology: CCTV; Computer vision
Issue: Privacy; Surveillance; Dual/multi-use
Transparency: Governance
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News, commentary, analysis
https://www.ft.com/content/27faa953-1723-4597-a5a0-2ff9e617feab
https://mashable.com/article/amazon-aws-panorama-worker-customer-tracking-technology-smart-cameras/
https://www.inputmag.com/tech/aws-panorama-is-a-device-that-adds-machine-learning-to-any-camera
https://techmonitor.ai/boardroom/productivity-monitoring-tools-office-365-amazon-aws
https://uk.pcmag.com/cameras/130315/amazona-panorama-makes-any-surveillance-camera-intelligent
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Type: Incident
Published: January 2021
Last updated: January 2022