- Using the service would prevent package theft and obviate the need to stay home or arrange for a spare key for a contractor or visitor.
But it requires customers to be comfortable with a smart lock controlled by Amazon and with an Amazon-connected camera monitoring the inside of their home and communicating to the cloud. Even if users are willing to trust Amazon with that level of access to their homes, they might have other concerns; Internet-connected smart devices can be vulnerable to hacking.
TIME THE FUCK OUT HERE PEOPLE. So Amazon wants a camera inside your house that sends, I will assume video, to "the cloud." And what happens where someone at Amazon gets bored and starts accessing this data looking for naked women? Or if the NSA, DHS, DEA comes knocking with a national security letter? I refuse to have an Alexa, Google Home, Nest any of that shit in my house. It's bad enough that I have a fucking cell phone listening and doing god knows what with that data.But it requires customers to be comfortable with a smart lock controlled by Amazon and with an Amazon-connected camera monitoring the inside of their home and communicating to the cloud.
I'd guess that the average lifespan of a package left at a door in my neighborhood is 4 hours. In my mom's denser neighborhood about 2 miles away it's probably twenty minutes. I get everything delivered to the shop because otherwise it would be gone by the time I get home a significant part of the time. Amazon Key is significantly cheaper than a package locker. It's the only IOT device I've seen that I'd consider getting.
They keep rolling out the new services... https://www.theonion.com/popular-new-amazon-service-just-comes-to-your-house-and-1819917496
Yup. I am going to trust physical access to my house to a stranger. Right!