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Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It feels like the cat’s out of the bag and they will just go ahead with whatever they planned on doing with this partnership, but not be as open about it. Bury it somewhere in the user agreement.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Agreed. For anyone not already following Louis Rossmann, he's a right-to-repair guy on an anti-surveilance arc and is always posting good information that will make you seethe.

    His city tried to buy Flock cameras and he organized enough resistance that they cancelled... but then they are trying again a while later, assuming the scrutiny is off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MiLiQ6olkI

    Ring will do the same thing.

    Microslop, Meta, Google, et al will get their hands slapped when they are too proud about how they are fucking you, and then will issue a retraction, but only long enough to let the anger die out before doing it again more quietly.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    They can also be, not to put too fine a point on it, petty dicks about it.

    My city banned Flock cameras. So there are a bunch of them juuust outside the city limits. Since official city limits lag behind development they're at intersections you would otherwise think were in the city.

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