Working in conjunction with Amazon, Jersey City police have taken the matter into their own hands to catch these so-called porch thieves, using technology. The Jersey City police department installed doorbell cameras and planted fake packages with GPS tracking devices inside and waited for thieves to try and steal them. According to a 2017 study, 11 million homeowners in the U.S. had packages stolen in the previous year. Amazon's mixed privacy effortsAmazon has worked hard to stave off package theft in a number of different ways. In July, the Rekognition facial surveillance technology wrongly tagged 28 members of Congress as police suspects, according to ACLU research.

Source: Fox News December 13, 2018 17:37 UTC