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Amazon workers in India, Romania could be watching Cloud Cam home footage

Teams working on the Cloud Cam programme have picked up activity homeowners are unlikely to want shared, including rare instances of people having sex.

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Amazon's Cloud Cam home security system sparks new round of depate on privacy. (Representative Photo: iStock)

Natalia Drozdiak, Giles Turner and Matt Day | Bloomberg
In a promotional video, Amazon.com Inc. says its Cloud Cam home security camera provides “everything you need to monitor your home, day or night.” In fact, the artificially intelligent device requires help from a squad of invisible employees.

Dozens of Amazon workers based in India and Romania review select clips captured by Cloud Cam, according to five people who have worked on the program or have direct knowledge of it. Those video snippets are then used to train the AI algorithms to do a better job distinguishing between a real threat (a home invader) and a false alarm (the cat jumping

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