Amazon’s smart glasses will reportedly take photos of whatever drivers see while wearing them with no plans so far for customer opt-outs or other common privacy protections.
Key takeaways
Amazon's delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos almost constantly, capturing thousands of images per shift, which will be uploaded to Amazon's AI platform.
- Amazon plans to deploy 20,000 smart glasses by the end of 2027.
- The glasses will capture images of people and private property.
- Amazon will blur people and license plates in the images before human review.
- Customers will not be able to opt-out of the photo collection or view the images taken of them.
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Amazon deliveries could soon come with a new catch: the delivery driver's smart glasses will be snapping photos of anything they see while they're in use, including people and private property. Bloomberg reports that the glasses could take "several thousand captures in a single driver's typical shift," which Amazon plans to upload to its AI Wellspring platform. When asked if customers will be able to opt-out of this, Amazon's Viraj Chatterjee told Bloomberg, "We haven't thought about that."
Chatterjee claimed Amazon's only using the data from the glasses to "enhance the delivery process," adding, "The intent has never been stuff like surve …
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