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Amazon customers can’t opt out of driver camera glasses, Bloomberg reports

Amazon's smart glasses feed an AI that maps neighbourhoods, and the images can be obtained with a warrant. It wants 5,000 drivers wearing them by the end of this year.

Tarun Mottlia

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Amazon customers can’t opt out of driver camera glasses, Bloomberg reports
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Amazon’s delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses that take pictures “almost constantly” on foot, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee reported on Wednesday. A single shift could produce several thousand images of whatever the driver sees, including private property.

Customers will have no way to opt out, see the images or ask for them to be deleted, Lee reported. Amazon has no plans to tell them directly about the glasses.

“We haven’t thought about that,” Viraj Chatterjee, the Amazon executive…

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