Why Amazon’s new facial-recognition AI for Ring doorbells has privacy experts worried

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ZDNET’s key takeaways

• Amazon has launched its new Familiar Faces feature.
• It lets Ring users save people’s faces to a library in the app.
• Critics argue it’s a dangerous violation of privacy.

Amazon has launched a new feature that enables Ring doorbell cameras to recognize and catalog faces of people using AI. 

While the company is promoting the technology as a convenient way for homeowners to customize notifications and boost…