Amazon's delivery drivers may soon wear smart glasses that photograph almost everything they see.
Bloomberg reports the glasses could capture several thousand photos during a single shift, logging driveways, porches, and anyone standing nearby. Amazon plans to funnel that imagery into an internal AI system called Wellspring. Asked whether customers could opt out of being photographed, Amazon's Viraj Chatterjee told Bloomberg, "We haven't thought about that." Chatterjee said the goal is only to "enhance the delivery process," not to monitor people.
That answer matters because the cameras do not just watch Amazon's own drivers, they watch everyone a delivery truck passes. Thousands of routes times several thousand frames a shift adds up to a sprawling, constantly refreshed photo archive of ordinary front yards and the people in them. Nobody pictured in those frames signed up for anything.
"We haven't thought about that" is a strange thing to hear from a company built on tracking packages down to the minute. If Amazon can calculate a delivery window to the second, it can figure out who gets photographed on their own doorstep.