No way! It seemed so authentic when they said they’d search for dogs.

I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you.

Ok… I’m not shocked at all.

Imagine spending millions on an ad to alert people to your evil scheme.

Proof that you don’t have to be smart to be rich and powerful.

I have to say, it's nice that they got called out on this immediately for a change.

The whole "find lost dogs" thing was likely the result of a single meeting with the agenda item "how do we sell this thing we are already doing as anything other than mass surveillance for state actors?" They probably ended it early.

Why anyone would have non-locally hosted video surveillance in and around their home is beyond me.

You're basically begging corporations/governments to spy on you.

And in other breaking news: the sky is blue, tree pretty, and fire hot.

No kidding? Next thing you will be telling us that chatcontrol and age checks on the internet will be used for more than just protecting kids from pedophiles and be extended to crushing dissent and opposition and democracy itself, and building social scores on us with all information including these cameras that will be used secretly against us in a way we cannot know or challenge to determine our jobs, background checks, police scrutiny, how courts and government treats you, how business treats you, the prices you are offered online and in digital price tag stores (coming soon,) and even what search results you are shown. All calculated by the antichrist's company, for said pedophile or pedophile adjacent politicians deciding which of us are undesirable, and given a way to slip names of people into the bad score list themselves, always a selling perk under the table to leaders.

It's always just a trojan horse to get in the walls. It will never end with finding pets, with stopping child abuse, what have you. They find the instance that no one can disagree with then accuse people of helping child abusers, maybe you are a child abuser yourself! It's not subtle. All done by people that are mostly on the epstein's redacted and unreleased pages for actually fucking children.

Between Ring and Jeffrey Epstein, it's surprising how explicit criminals are about their criminal intentions.

They lied?!

You know.. here's the thing..

Years ago, I'd be on Reddit and reading the usual rants and raves about the government, and how the public should be wary of it and we are heading into a security state.. and I always positied that the real threat actors WRT privacy and security were going to be companies like facebook and google and the businesses that made internet-connected devices.

Compared to them, as far as data colleciton and surveillance of people - the government was filled with rank amateurs.

I'd consistently get downvoted or pooh-poohed for being "naive."

God fucking dammit.. on this.. I am absolutely pissed off that I was calling this one - and have been - for over a decade.

FML, I hate this SOOOOOO much.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

Ancient book of Arabic numerals reveals 2 comes after 1.

What if your kid runs off? Your elderly mother wondered off? A break in was reported down the road? What if all non whites are labeled terrorist? We need to watch you 24/7. Obey

Lol fucking duh

Yeah, we all saw that coming and it's exactly why everyone's freaking out about it.

It's about dogs and crime. Sure.

c/noshitsherlock

Breaking news: Fire is hot.

Ok guys, hear me out.

I need you to buy these cameras and put them on your face.

We will record your video for you and keep it safe for you and never give your data to anybody and we'll do all of this for free.

We'll also give you all of the software and setup all of the servers for you. Don't you worry your silly head about needing to learn anything about how to use technology, just give us your life-long dependence as we'll take care of everything. Also, AI.*

Also, you will help save puppies and children and you are on the side of puppies and children, right? This is a great deal! You can stop reading here, just click the button to agree... for the puppies.

*

fuckin'… they were expanding into dogs to distract from what the system was really for

FYI -

• Ring and Alexa are Amazon
• Nest is Google

Boycott ring

No shit Sherlock

Wait… what?!

They mean to cats too, right?!?

Y’all just need to think about the shareholders.

No shit

Oh, thank god, I was worried if there might not be a worldwide surveillance dragnet for in case I lost a pet iguana.

Fucking scumbags.

😱

No Duh?!

I'm.... flabbergasted. Unbelievable. Who would've thought?

Anyone remember "Police Blotter" reports in local papers? Some were funny.

Someone called in with concerns about a neighborhood cat that is "continuously at large."

But they mostly gave people a very dark view of the world outside. This led to metal bars on doors and windows, sale of pricey security systems, and folks walking around scared of their shadow. That all moved over to apps like NextDoor, Citizen, and Ring's Neighbors.

Fear is a primal driver. People on those apps are constantly reporting "odd looking people" in their neighborhood. Not surprisingly, the pet "Search Party" feature goes through Neighbors. Those same users are primed to see bad people everywhere. They will happily accept any feature that promises "zero crime neighborhoods."

ANY feature.

CREEE PEEEE!

And they can ONLY Achieve this MONUMENTAL and IMPORTANT Task of Global Surveillance if we give THEM Tax Breaks! How EXCITING!

-American Politicians!

And in other "no shit" headlines...

Sorry, I only have a YouTube link for this: https://youtu.be/ROFblZ_-9q4

If you haven't seen it, Wyse (Ring competitor) released a pretty funny ad about this.

pikachu_face.jpg

Duhhhhhhhhh

BOLO: Leftist dissenter. Apprehend at all costs.

Uploading to search party for facial match.......

Breaking News! Multiple forks discovered in kitchen, exclusive coverage tonight at 11:00!

FWIW, Ring announced they were canceling their partnership with Flock a few days ago following the Superbowl ad where they were universally dragged. https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-and-flock-cancel-partnership/

Do I think Ring is still running some sort of analytics on video feeds? Probably. Should you put anything from Amazon directly in the trash? Absolutely.

Silver lining I guess is that public pressure still works at least a little when companies try to go straight dystopian.

Birds?