Absolutely. Thank you.
In terms of capitalizing on public space, this is something we are definitely concerned about. Amazon Ring is actually the poster child for that. To my knowledge, it has not come up here yet. Again, Professor Thomasen can speak more to this. I think Amazon Ring was looking at Windsor at one point.
We know that there are open partnerships—well, now there are open partnerships—between Amazon and police. Police were essentially conscripted as the marketing department of Amazon Ring doorbells, which raises numerous concerns from the perspective of both the private sector and the public sector, but mostly the public sector.
Surveillance capitalism is an aspect of this public-private surveillance ecosystem, because it has to do with incentive structures. You have the private companies with their own incentives to collect as much data as possible to capitalize on it. A lot of their funding then comes from government through government grants. Whether it's through the guise of innovation or whether it's because they have lobbied government behind the scenes to give them these particular grants, the government funds them. It's partly because they buy into an innovation story or they think, hey, if the company collects all this data, then maybe eventually we'll have access to that data too. It's essentially government and private companies working hand in hand to build out this network of surveillance.
The second thing you mentioned was abuse. I think we have so many examples of that. Actually, in responding to the earlier question about the potentially beneficial uses of facial recognition technology, my mind went to—