A threat you can’t ignore. And you can’t stop after identifying one person who wasn’t responsible.

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/potential-threat-denver-community-colleges/73-400410cd-6133-4d47-9549-7635dad054d4

Denver area community colleges affected by threat that police think was 'doxing'

Five Denver metro area community colleges closed or were on lockout Friday due to a potential threat Friday morning that law enforcement later confirmed was a hoax and "a form of doxing."

According to the Colorado Community College System (CCCS), threats were made against:

Arapahoe Community College

Community College of Aurora

Community College of Denver

Front Range Community College

Red Rocks Community College

… Arapahoe Community College Police Sgt. K.W. Moreland said that several individuals at different colleges received a threatening email shortly after midnight Friday.

The Westminster Police Department (WPD) said its officers contacted a person of interest in threats against Front Range Community College (FRCC) and that it appeared that the threats were a form of doxing against that individual.

“There was information contained in the threat about a specific person saying, ‘I’m this person. I’m making the threat. Here’s what I’m going to do,'" said Cheri Spottke, WPD investigator. "We quickly were able to contact that person in-person and determined that the person had not sent the threats."

… On Friday afternoon, CU Boulder Police said law enforcement had determined that the threats were a hoax.

A sweeping new threat to privacy?

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-irobot-roomba-acquisition-data-privacy/

The iRobot Deal Would Give Amazon Maps Inside Millions of Homes

AFTER DECADES OF creating war machines and home cleaning appliances, iRobot agreed to be acquired by Amazon for $1.7 billion, according to a joint statement by the two companies. If the deal goes through, it would give Amazon access to yet another wellspring of personal data: interior maps of Roomba owners’ homes.

iRobot got its start building robots for the US military, but 20 years ago added consumer vacuums to the mix. (It spun off the defense business altogether in 2016.) Those Roombas work in part by using sensors to map the homes they operate in. In a 2017 Reuters interview, iRobot CEO Colin Angle suggested the company might someday share that data with tech companies developing smart home devices and AI assistants.

Combined with other recent acquisition targets, Amazon could wind up with a comprehensive look at what’s happening inside people’s homes. The ecommerce giant acquired video doorbell company Ring in 2018 and Wi-Fi router-maker Eero a year later. Speakers and other devices with AI assistant Alexa can now control thousands of smart home devices, including Roomba vacuums. And Amazon plans to acquire primary care chain One Medical in a $3.49 billion all-cash deal, which if approved would put the health data of millions in its keeping.

“People tend to think of Amazon as an online seller company, but really Amazon is a surveillance company. That is the core of its business model, and that’s what drives its monopoly power and profit,” says Evan Greer, director of the nonprofit digital rights organization Fight for the Future. “Amazon wants to have its hands everywhere, and acquiring a company that’s essentially built on mapping the inside of people’s homes seems like a natural extension of the surveillance reach that Amazon already has.”