Quoted from gdonovan:
You do realize it is being used along with facial recognition to track anyone who might be passing your house? Not to mention your own habits entering and exiting your domicile, all of which is reported back to Amazon. One site even noted security cameras hooked to the web were reporting back to a server in China and there was 24,000 files for each address with bio-metric data that was being captured and analyzed.
You have enough Ring cameras in the neighborhood and Amazon can literately track anyone in real time. Facebook does the same with "the bug" in their app that tracks non-facebook phone owners by sniffing out mac addreses from the other phones wifi and bluetooth adapters and reporting home.
Amazon has already been caught streaming audio from people homes via voice activated devices and saving it.
I get what you're saying, and on a lot of levels, it's disconcerting that George Orwell's vision (yes, intended) was so spot on. That being said, I'm not that interesting, and I don't have anything worth stealing. So if they want to waste their time trying to figure me out, the joke's on them.