📑 A Black Woman Invented Home Security. Why Did It Go So Wrong?

Bookmarked A Black Woman Invented Home Security. Why Did It Go So Wrong? by Chris Gilliard (WIRED)

A Black woman who feared for her safety creates a system. A white guy develops an iteration of this system later because he is annoyed that people are ringing his doorbell too often. This becomes a tool to manage Amazon’s loss prevention. Eventually, it leads to a boom not only in home security products like the Amazon suite and Google’s security cameras, along with a variety of others, but increasing measures to make the home, the neighborhood, and all public and private spaces a 24/7 watched fortress, complete with cameras, drones, security robots, and automated license plate readers. But amid this escalation, one urgent question arises: What are we defending ourselves against?

Chris Gilliard discusses the history of surveillance and its association with racism.