Jackson soon discovered that Amazon suspended his account because a Black delivery driver who’d come to his house the previous day had reported hearing racist remarks from his video doorbell. In a brief email sent to Jackson at 3 a.m., the company explained how it unilaterally placed all of his linked devices and services on hold as it commenced an internal investigation.

The accusations baffled Jackson. He and his family are Black. When he reviewed the doorbell’s footage, he saw that nobody was home at the time of the delivery. At a loss for what could have prompted the accusation of racism, he suspected the driver had misinterpreted the doorbell’s automated response: “Excuse me, can I help you?”

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    9 months ago

    FYI copyright on your own files is independent from any right to access your file storage, copyright is nothing like property law no matter how much lawyers pretend it is.

    Instead you want to invoke privacy law and the right to your own data.

    And first sale doctrine would apply well to digital purchases like media and apps and especially the right to keep using your purchased electronics (with fully functional offline modes)