Leaked Documents Show How Amazon's Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do

Leaked Documents Show How Amazon's Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do

3 years ago
Anonymous $WHrWmjSJBZ

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/93ypp8/leaked-documents-amazon-astro-surveillance-robot-tracking

Amazon's new robot called Astro is designed to track the behavior of everyone in your home to help it perform its surveillance and helper duties, according to leaked internal development documents and video recordings of Astro software development meetings obtained by Motherboard. The system's person recognition system is heavily flawed, according to two sources who worked on the project.

The documents, which largely use Astro's internal codename "Vesta" for the device, give extensive insight into the robot's design, Amazon's philosophy, how the device tracks customer behavior as well as flow charts of how it determines who a "stranger" is and whether it should take any sort of "investigation activity" against them.

Leaked Documents Show How Amazon's Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do

Sep 28, 2021, 10:40pm UTC
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/93ypp8/leaked-documents-amazon-astro-surveillance-robot-tracking > Amazon's new robot called Astro is designed to track the behavior of everyone in your home to help it perform its surveillance and helper duties, according to leaked internal development documents and video recordings of Astro software development meetings obtained by Motherboard. The system's person recognition system is heavily flawed, according to two sources who worked on the project. > The documents, which largely use Astro's internal codename "Vesta" for the device, give extensive insight into the robot's design, Amazon's philosophy, how the device tracks customer behavior as well as flow charts of how it determines who a "stranger" is and whether it should take any sort of "investigation activity" against them.