Police team up with (((Amazon))) to hand out free camera doorbells to thousands of households across Britain >The internet-enabled doorbells are triggered by movement and begin recording as someone approaches the front door, with the householder notified via mobile.
>Four forces - Suffolk, Leicestershire, Humberside and Hertfordshire - have been given the devices to pass on to residents, the Sunday Times reports.
>Amazon has also reportedly been given the go-ahead to sign a £243,000 sponsorship deal with the Met police to hand out 1,000 video doorbells to crime victims and people living in burglary hotspots.
>The force said it was finalising the project and is unable to discuss the details at this stage.
>Griff Ferris, legal officer at Big Brother Watch said the deal was as a “chilling Amazon-sponsored police project to extend the surveillance state onto people’s property” that “must be stopped”.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/9886618/police-amazon-free-camera-doorbells/
Assange to remain in jail after his sentence ends >He was due to be released on 22 September after serving his sentence for breaching bail conditions. But Westminster Magistrates' Court heard there were "substantial grounds" for believing he would abscond again.
>District judge Vanessa Baraitser on Friday told Assange "You have been produced today because your sentence of imprisonment is about to come to an end. When that happens your remand status changes from a serving prisoner to a person facing extradition."
>He will face a full extradition hearing next year, starting on 25 February, after an extradition request was signed by the then home secretary of west pakistan Sajid Javid in June.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-49689167
>Not Lowering crime by having people use security cameras because meth heads dont give a shit about cameras
Bad.
>Teaming up with Amazon and streaming to organized crime
Bad.
>The internet-enabled doorbells are triggered by movement and begin recording as someone approaches the front door, with the householder notified via mobile.
>Four forces - Suffolk, Leicestershire, Humberside and Hertfordshire - have been given the devices to pass on to residents, the Sunday Times reports.
>Amazon has also reportedly been given the go-ahead to sign a £243,000 sponsorship deal with the Met police to hand out 1,000 video doorbells to crime victims and people living in burglary hotspots.
>The force said it was finalising the project and is unable to discuss the details at this stage.
>Griff Ferris, legal officer at Big Brother Watch said the deal was as a “chilling Amazon-sponsored police project to extend the surveillance state onto people’s property” that “must be stopped”.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/9886618/police-amazon-free-camera-doorbells/
Assange to remain in jail after his sentence ends
>He was due to be released on 22 September after serving his sentence for breaching bail conditions. But Westminster Magistrates' Court heard there were "substantial grounds" for believing he would abscond again.
>District judge Vanessa Baraitser on Friday told Assange "You have been produced today because your sentence of imprisonment is about to come to an end. When that happens your remand status changes from a serving prisoner to a person facing extradition."
>He will face a full extradition hearing next year, starting on 25 February, after an extradition request was signed by the then home secretary of west pakistan Sajid Javid in June.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-49689167