Wed Jun 14, 2023 – 9:10 pm EDT
BALTIMORE (LifeSiteNews) — Concerns about the potential for “smart” technology to be weaponized against people in a Chinese-style social credit system appeared to have been vindicated last weekend after a Baltimore man reported being locked out of his “smart home” devices in a kind of “digital exile” after an Amazon delivery driver inaccurately reported having heard a racist comment through the man’s video doorbell.
In a June 4 article published on Medium, Microsoft engineer Brandon Jackson said he had “finally regained access to my Amazon account after an unexpected and unwarranted lockout that lasted nearly a week” at the end of last month.
“Due to this experience, I am seriously considering discontinuing my use of Amazon Echo devices and will caution others about this incident,” he wrote.
While Jackson explained he wasn’t actually prevented from getting into his house (because most of his systems were subhosted), he was still blocked from accessing much of the functionality of his automated devices. Moreover, he said anyone whose devices were set up exclusively through Amazon, rather than subhosted, could actually lose access to their doors and other crucial infrastructure in a
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