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Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... (lemmy.world)
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Jason Bassler | @JasonBassler1

Big Brother just got an upgrade.

Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored, tagged, & analyzed without consent.

One step closer to total surveillance.

[Image: A Ring doorbell camera mounted on a brick wall. A digital overlay shows facial recognition scanning a person's face with grid lines. Text on the right reads "Amazon's Ring Adds Facial Recognition to Home Security" with additional text below.]

6:00 PM | Oct 4, 2025

Source: https://x.com/JasonBassler1/status/1974640686419857516

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[–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I found this page explaining that it's not that it's illegal (necessarily, keep reading), but that there is a GDPR exemption for private property and if you're filming areas the public access then you need to comply with GDPR. The page says for dashcams you need to comply with GDPR as well.

This page says it's generally not allowed to record, but if you read the Swedish version it has a flow chart (that I can't read 😅).

What most interests me is that it keeps referring to the GDPR as the reason why you can't record public areas (or your neighbours). I'm not in Europe and don't know much about the GDPR but why is Sweden special with these rules, why aren't all countries in the European Union limiting the use of security cameras on public areas?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    EU rules have to exist in order to regulate a certain thing, and even once they exist they don't apply automatically, each country has to codify and adapt them in their own legal frameworks. There are time limits to do this.

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