Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

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• Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  People are just now realizing that a mass network of always online cameras on most doors in your neighborhood is bad, actually?

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• Brad@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yep. First thing I thought was, “They’re going to let ICE use this to track people down.” Hell, they could already be doing that.

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  • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They’ve left the door open to law enforcement for years. This is not new.

    This article is from 2019 archive.today/kYbQV

    …and if you believe that police really had to ask, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya.

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  • bl4kers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If the footage has left your premises and stored on someone else’s machine (the cloud), it’s now out your control. It could be accessed by an employee, accidentally deleted/tampered, or handed over to a government entity without your knowledge. This applies to any brand of security cameras as well as file storage providers and even VPNs

    When motivated enough, governments can and do seize servers from data centers. A lot of the time companies rent them, so these vendors can’t even directly guarantee their physical safety

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• t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m so mad they’ve switched from their “protect the children” for Boomers, to “protect the pets” for us Millennials.

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  • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Technically in the ad it was the children’s pet. So they’ve managed to do a two-in-one and hit both demographics

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• vikinghoarder@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Save the dogs, the new blanket for surveillance. Great.

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• IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We already have mass surveillance. For decades.

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Could be? Soon? People they’re already doing it! Do people really not think so?

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