Amazon is now offering a new delivery service connected to its Cloud Cam smart home system that will allow a delivery driver to enter a customer's home to drop off a package.
In an age where packages left on doorsteps are disappearing with increasing frequency, Amazon is offering a new "service" where you let the delivery driver into your home. Enter the Internet of Things and Amazon’s Cloud Cam-based “Key” service in which the wifi-connected camera communicates with an electronic lock on one’s front door. When the delivery driver arrives, he or she will scan the package’s barcode, which is authenticated before allowing entry into the home. With one swipe, the courier unlocks the door, enters the doorway, drops off the package, shuts the door, and with another swipe, relocks the door. The entire delivery is caught on camera, which is then transmitted to the customer’s smart phone along with a delivery notification.
In an effort to combat package theft, Amazon has taken a number of steps, including lockers at third-party locations, and backyard aerial delivery with drones. Amazon Key takes this to a whole new level, while making a major advance in a still-developing market. Cloud Cam is the central hub of Amazon’s new push into the “smart home” market, acting not only as a home security system, but seamlessly integrated with the Alexa system to accept voice commands and to interact with other enabled devices. While the camera is available now, Amazon Key will not be available for a couple more weeks. Still, the service has an under-reported dark side. All of the data collected through Alexa and the Cloud Cam systems becomes proprietary for Amazon—and very quickly, the company knows almost everything about each and every customer, purportedly for the purpose of providing better, tailored services.
Eh, I got nothing to hide. This service is gonna be a godsend, and saves me the hassle of contacting support because some asswipe stole my package.
Jackson Diaz
Why not just use an Amazon Locker?
Bentley Fisher
Not like this can be easily exploited, I guess housebreaker in the future will have it easy.
Aiden Carter
I wish my city's postal service was better so I didn't need this.
Alexander Moore
Some things don't fit into lockers
Asher Lewis
It's almost like if they steal something, you can prove it and have the courier arrested since the smart key also comes with a camera.
You people hating this idea are fucking retarded.
Austin Long
Why don't they just ask for copies of people's house keys? It's pretty much the same thing, and much more straightforward.
Henry Gomez
>Actually needing this Enjoy your non white neighborhoods
Julian Thompson
I can't wait for them to announce service blackout areas that conveniently exclude all the poor people areas with minorities and then being forced to remove them after being called racists.
Dominic Green
Until someone steals the keys
Justin Brown
Have fun sorting through 10,000 different keys you dip
Gabriel Phillips
why would you need dildos that big?
Josiah Butler
You really think amazon is going door to door? It's a courier service, 1 package, 1 address. They receive 1 keyring to go open their house.
Justin Robinson
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Cameron Gray
False equivalency.
Ethan Fisher
uh huh yea that will work in till someone is raped murdered stolen shit etc you name it.
It's going to be just fine...you're all morons.
Eli Nelson
>Troll
Adrian Gonzalez
The main point is the security camera.
Which ensures the delivery guy didn't steal anything or did anything nasty while he was inside, or he would get caught for sure.
Elijah Reed
>till someone is raped murdered stolen shit etc you name it.
While being both recorded and you having a live stream on your phone.
Raped also implies someone is home. What do you think happens NOW when a delivery guy rings your door and someone is home?
Jordan Lewis
Good thing for burglars that deadbolts don't exist anymore, right? Thanks you Amazon, there's literally no way to lock your door anymore.
Gabriel Flores
This seems so much easier than an automated platform that can be audited and integrated to new and existing services.
Samuel Jackson
You really think Amazon can afford to dispatch individual delivery drivers to individual houses to deliver individual packages? One driver gets every package being delivered to a neighborhood or town, gets in his van, and delivers them in order. It means yes, he would need a keyring with dozens or hundreds of keys on it.
Isaac Williams
Honestly they probably would encourage this in those areas. Right now if someone steals the package off your steps amazon normally will just send you a new one. With this you that can’t happen.
Daniel Campbell
Honestly they probably won’t waste those few seconds to ring the bell and will go right in.
Charles Gomez
Well there's always good old fashioned breaking and entering. Really though the big gain here is certainly for Amazon. I'm surprised a discount isn't offered for purchases shipped to Key homes.
Josiah Collins
normies will use it
this will be common thing in next few years
Jose Gonzalez
If I can install it on something like a tool shed or storage closet on my front patio specifically for packages, sure. Other than that, hell no.
Ryder Hughes
Closed source software on a camera in your home. Do you actually think the camera will only check those deliveries? Are you gonna bet on amazon good will? I would had no problem with that system if the cameras software is open sourced and deployed by me from the source.
William Campbell
That's a rather shitty cuckshed.
Juan Lee
>packages left on doorsteps are disappearing with increasing frequency Americans
Lucas James
Why are consumers completely incapable of acting in their own interests? Is Sup Forums right that capitalism is the best economic system? If we gas all the kikes, will white men suddenly become more rational?
Anthony Reyes
I was going to reply with >niggers But then I realized only Americans have that issue.
Gabriel Myers
>If we gas all the kikes, will white men suddenly become more rational? white crypto kikes will just take advantage, replace them and use their tactics like it's happened in the past modern jews aren't really jews either just larpers taking advantage
Samuel Phillips
Letting someone in your home is a stupid idea. What they really need is an Amazon Chimney where the delivery guy will climb onto your roof and drop the package down the installed Amazon Chimney. It would be totally safe from package thieves and you wouldn't have to let anyone into your home either.
Jonathan Hall
How often do you order things that don't fit lockers?
Aiden Gomez
>More eyes on the code == safer
Heartbleed should have corrected this misconception but I guess we'll need another reminder.
How many components are on a camera that can hide malicious code? It's like everything except the glossy shell.
Brayden Price
Nice
Ryan Ramirez
If you're that concerned, why don't you just... get your own camera?
Adrian Adams
>delivery driver comes in >see pic related
Aaron Ross
>HEY DUDE LET ME IN, AM AMAZON DONT YOU LIKE PACKAGES DUDE? LET ME IN!
Mason Martinez
>living in nigger-infested neighborhoods
Owen Richardson
It'll be funny when someone does that, but then locks the Amazon worker in and demands the keys.
Thomas Sanders
>all my neighbors are white within 3-4 blocks >few old people on my street on their porches all day to looks out for nigs ezpz
Dylan Thompson
Not the user you replied to, but I bought a backpack and some boots last week that Amazon said couldn’t fit in a locker, so I had it delivered to a UPS store.
Julian Lee
>contacting support because some asswipe stole my package. As another asswipe waltzed into your home to "deliver" a package as they steal everything in your house.
Liam Ross
Imagine all the possibilities in the future
>amazon maid to clean up your house while you're away >amazon chef to prepare a meal for you before you get home >amazon nanny to take care of your baby
Gabriel Clark
nobodys gonno steal something that big
Eli Butler
I always thought something like a delivery safe on your premises would be the next step but it would be impractical and costly. I remember seeing trails of using your car as the drop off location but I suppose you may as well go straight for home access since the consumer is complacent enough to allow for it.
Jayden Baker
>burgler waits outside a house >delivery guy walks up and unlocks door to place package >burgler runs in and knocks out faggot delivery boy with a pipe wrench to the back of the head >steals everything in your house >delivery guy sues you for his fractured skull Great idea.
Leo Watson
>le nothing to hide maymay Yeah, now you have to worry about Tyrone stealing shit from inside your house.
Brayden Green
To be fair, they've already been able to do that
Landon Brooks
>>few old people on my street on their porches all day to looks out for nigs give my regards to Clint
Jace Sanders
>Amazon escort to fulfill your sexual desires
Dylan Collins
>amazon escort to take care of your virginity
Owen Sullivan
>3dpd
Juan Morris
you need to go back Pablo
Brody Lopez
>The Indian in the Cupboard
William Bennett
You're not even making sense dude.
Camden Anderson
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Austin Taylor
who cares what race is she?
Bentley Myers
If they do anything on camera that is suspect then Amazon will take care of it for you. They bend over backwards for customers.
>he doesn't live in the boonies where with a 500 foot driveway where packages can be left anywhere and no one will steal it cause there's no black people out here
Grayson Perry
One of my buddies stole a round bale. I wouldn't underestimate people.
Colton Baker
Probably native american and white judging by the cheek bones and manliness of the face
Christian Mitchell
I noticed a while back that Amazon shipping services will deliver on Sundays and after dark. Then I noticed why, they hire illegals straight off the boat from North Africa. Which is fine I get that they have to save costs but asking me to let them have a key to my house? Make it well-paid, legally employed white guys and well I still wouldn't consider it but I'd be closer to considering it.
Landon Sanchez
Literally what's the issue? This actually serves a valid and useful purpose unlike the increasingly popular home botnet assistants.
Chase Butler
one of the guys I mentioned is literally his character to a fucking t he has a few old project cars and says he was landing craft pilot on d day and is casually racist makes me miss my grandfather >white suburbia ftw
Carter Green
not the worst idea i've ever heard of, but I am in no hurry to replace my locks with a "smart" device
I like the concept of lockers a lot more.. here in Canada a lot of stuff now gets delivered to a parcel locker in your community mailbox.. yes we have community mailboxes in Canada, oh god the horror what next public libraries??
Carter Mitchell
>Customers who bought this also bought: >Condoms >Handcuffs >Lube >Get them all for 34.27!
Cooper Wright
>what's the problem with having your door locks replaced with IoT locks that can be unlocked remotely and are owned by a megacorporation
Asher Foster
Really, though, if anyone wanted in they'd just break the glass sliding door in my backyard. I won't sign up for this, but it isn't going to make my house any less secure. Plus I have cameras.
Noah Wood
>He doesn't garden around his cuckshed
What a faggot
Jaxon Hill
>locks that can be unlocked remotely and are owned by a megacorporation But that's wrong. They temporarily allow access to people with a keycard when you request for them to be by ordering something. It's still entirely your lock.
Either way locks are just to inconvenience someone from entering your house, I guarantee you have a perfectly fragile window not 5 feet away from your McFortress brand door.
Cooper Rogers
Unless you're regularly ordering desks and televisions why not just get a large mailbox? Whatever nigger decides to uproot it and lug a block of metal to his car deserves your anime BDs.
Joshua Flores
>But that's wrong But it's not. All the keycard is used for is to identify a delivery person. Your lock then sends the ID to Amazon, who match it against whether or not there should be a delivery happening right then, and then they choose to send the signal to your lock to unlock your door. They could also send that signal at any other time if they wanted to, and so could anyone in the world who remotely hacked your lock.
Benjamin Butler
Why don't we continue to have delivery people throw our shit at the front door, breaking our gentoos and shitty computer parts >Because that's so much better than allowing them to actually HIDE YOUR FUCKING SHIT BY ENTERING THE HOME
It's a convenience service, I don't see anything wrong with it. Allowing an IoT device to control the locks on your house is entirely different though.
Sebastian Ward
>This service is gonna be a godsend, and saves me the hassle of contacting support because some asswipe stole my package. Then that asswipe will become an delivery man who will use the access to steel your already open and used packages.
Eli Bell
The NSA be like dayum nigga thanks for the easy access.
Nathan Martin
>allowing an Amazon controlled camera in your house >allowing Amazon to unlock your doors >agreeing to a TOS that will almost certainly include a waiver saying you can't do shit if the system "fails"
JUST
Lucas Cox
I don't see the point of this, if you know you won't be home you can have the carrier put the package on hold and pick up at their pick up location or have the delivery.
Good luck doing this is you're renting/leasing also.
James Foster
>americans have to worry about their packages being stolen off their doorstep wtf
Jeremiah Bennett
I think I'll stick to UPS. If you aren't there when they make the delivery, they'll make a couple more attempts, or you can pick it up from them.
Josiah Watson
Americans are barely more socially evolved than 3rd world niggers.
Elijah Foster
fuck you are dumb
Sebastian Kelly
>Cloud Cam systems becomes proprietary for Amazon—and very quickly, the company knows almost everything about each and every customer except you aim the cam just beside the door... the only extra info they get is the pic of you getting what you ordered, or the pic of a theif stealing your shit.
this is nothing more than you already let them have.
Evan Harris
Bingo.
Gabriel Collins
>House has dogs >dogs get angry when someone they don't know just opens the door >person gets hurt
Jose King
The system is already incredibly anti-nigger so what's a little more on top?
Joseph Gomez
You're part of the problem. Do you think this is actually about hiding something? That that's what people are mad about?
No. The problem is what this signifies. Already we are the subjects of some grand commercial anthropology, concerned only with herding its flock and forging chains from our very own data. We are talking about the type of company that uses this influence to shift culture and popular thought.
This is the turning point. These types of things represent an unprecedented level depth of social permeation, something most governments would kill for. Once they become a permanent fixture in our homes, we are lost.
Brody Mitchell
Why wont burgers simply use bigger mailboxes that can fit a shipment box?
Eli Hill
>get friend to wear full face helmet + gloves >get him to sneakily follow you with cheap bike >when he sees a fairly expensive house, he holds you up at gunpoint >grabs the few expensive items he can carry fast >could also have a very subtle sign that means it's empty >he takes off >call cops >lie your ass off >friend disposes cheap bike >friend sells items on ebay weeks apart >get a decent one time pay day No way to prove the two were both in on it. And cops are too fucking slow to prevent it in time. I don't think it's worth the effort, but some poorly paid Amazon wage slave who's dead inside might.
Parker Cooper
Why not go to a depot to get your package. Why do technology companies insist on making things so that you don't have to leave your house?
Asher Foster
ive got a feeling that murder is going to spike up in levels thanks to this