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Ring camera users already can submit feeds from their camera to police, on request.

400ish found out of 10 million is…incredibly pathetic, lol.

I mean there are some ugly damn cats, for real.

Fucking dumbasses losing their dogs every day.

Yup. I wouldn't put it past the average person to see this and be happy. It hits the feel goods and for people who aren't already attuned to digital privacy concerns they likely aren't going to extrapolate the end game.

Privacy has always been a slippery slope issue which makes it very difficult to explain to people without sounding like a conspiracy theorist. Only when it's too late and people are negatively impacted does it become obvious, and by then it's too late.

Another area that isn't getting enough attention is Amazon Sidewalk. They're actively building out a network so these devices can share information (albeit limited) with each other even if you deny them internet access. Again, the tech is cool, but the possibilities are concerning.

As a kid I used to love tech and I remember reading CES coverage with anticipation and wonder. When Google Glass was demo'd I thought it was the coolest thing. Now there's no way I'd voluntarily put AR glasses that weren't FOSS on my face.

How else are we going to know who is at the door? I mean, I guess we could open it but that's boring

Should we buy ring nodes and feed them poisoned video feed?

Benn Jordan was recently doing work on poisoned audio files, making it so models are damaged by ingesting his music. I believe the same should be possible with video streams.

They probably won’t be training on the poisoned nodes, but they sure as hell will be wasting power on them. That makes it more expensive to do this stuff, no?

It’s real. I watched it with my mouth hanging open. I know the capability has been there for a while but openly advertising it as a good truly shocked me.

It's been real for a long time now, this is how ring works. You have to manually turn this stuff off and no one does.

There are some informative videos on this spy network.

This isn’t new. These companies have been doing this for a long long time. They need to be stopped.

No kidding, and the feature is on by default. It'll be lost human family members next.

Wait is flock seriously now partnered with ring?

Ok but you can just rewrite this meme with your deauth packets on the left side and Wifi 6 on the right side.

The fun part is that they're already at the "criminals" stage and we have been for a while. The marketing team is just backing into it and manufacturing consent.

They were hinting at its use for that in this ad by showing a young child right away.

The “If I’ve got nothing to hide, why should I care” argument has predictably aged like sour milk.

has it? the kind of critical thought that easily dispels this fallacy isn't being applied right now on a global scale as evidenced by the fact that people are blaming russia for the epstein illuminati ring.

You got me, but actually I mostly want the christian families and their children to be sad

It's ads like this that make people think it's really great, without ever considering the surveillance aspect. Probably some people who now want to get Ring cameras, just so they can help track down lost dogs. Instead, it will be used to hunt down escaping humans.

Based on what I've seen, it is so so so much worse than you think.
I honestly don't think the majority of those who see this ad will even consider negative uses of this system.

And if you are thinking 'how can people be that stupid', I will remind you that college professors are having to change their curriculums because many of their students can't read.

So yes, it's the day after the super bowl and I am quite sure the Gestapo cameras are flying off the shelves in the Amazon fulfillment centers.

Yes.

Nextdoor is full of morons sharing their ring videos and then going, "Well my videos aren't being shared online to Amazon because I checked the 'privacy' settings."

suggest a peep hole and a door knocker, don't over comolicate shit, and have a little faith in other people

Which mass surveillance fear product?

There isn't one.

I think a strong laser straight to the CMOS chip is better since it can't just be cleaned off.

Should've used GrapheneOS.