Seemingly against all notions of common sense, Amazon announced Tuesday that it's moving forward with its in-home surveillance drone.
First announced in September of 2020, the Always Home Cam is a flying security camera designed to move around customers' homes on pre-programmed routes — streaming video the entire time. As of Tuesday, customers can sign up for a waiting list to purchase the $249 device.
"When you're away, you can just press a button in the Ring app and it will fly a preplanned route and show you what's going on," explained an Amazon blog post. "It can also be set to do routes based on a triggered event, like flying to a Ring Door Alarm sensor when it's tripped in Away mode."
Amazon's announcement does make a small concession to what will undoubtedly be the avalanche of privacy concerns raised by autonomous, mobile, internet-connected cameras moving about customers' homes.
"The camera lens is covered when it's in the dock," promises Amazon, "and it only films when it's in motion."
SEE ALSO: Amazon quietly announces major expansion to neighborhood surveillance networks
That's good and particularly relevant, as Amazon admitted in 2020 that an unspecified number of employees had tried to access customers' Ring video footage. Yikes.
Related video: Your privacy may be another victim of the coronavirus pandemic
TopicsAmazonCybersecurityPrivacyGadgets
(责任编辑：休閑)
Mall builds real
The 1980s did winter coats better than anyone else
Hockey player tells his dad he made the Olympics in heartwarming video
Incredible images show the East Coast 'bomb cyclone' from space'The Flying Bum' aircraft crashes during second test flightResearchers create temporary tattoos you can use to control your devices
In the future, your tattoos could be much more than just ink designs. 。Scientists have created a new
...[详细]Man on 'Jeopardy!' learns the hard way to always keep it 'gangsta'
On a recent episode of Jeopardy!, everyone learned an important lesson about the proper use of the w
...[详细]The 1980s did winter coats better than anyone else
Step onto any train during a New York winter and you're likely to see a frozen mass of sad humans, s
...[详细]10 TV shows to binge during Winter Storm Grayson
Climate change is probably coming for us like the Night King's army on Game of Thrones, but at least
...[详细]How Hyperloop One went off the rails
In December 2014, an engineer with the unlikely name Brogan BamBrogan was in the driveway of his cla
...[详细]Eric Trump, the smarter one, tweets that Ellen DeGeneres is part of the #DeepState
The Deep State apparently now includes such malicious actors as James Comey and a daytime television
...[详细]
Kick me out of California because it's about to get awkward in here.The beloved and simplistic Calif
...[详细]'Bomb cyclone' leads to record coastal flooding in Massachusetts
Snow may be dominating headlines in the wake of Thursday's "bomb cyclone," but coastal flooding has
...[详细]Mom discovers security cameras hacked, kids' bedroom livestreamed
A mother in Houston, Texas woke up one morning to pretty much every parent's worst-case scenario.
。 "
...[详细]A winter storm is breaking snowfall records in the Southeast
Parts of the Southeastern United States woke up to a most unusual sight on Wednesday morning: Snow a
...[详细]Samsung Galaxy Note7 teardown reveals the magic behind the phone's iris scanner
Donald Trump brags his 'nuclear button' is bigger than Kim Jong Un's
