Amazon to launch Ring ‘neighbourhood watch’ app in UK amid US privacy fears

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• Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This article reads more like an advert / marketing piece than journalism worth a damn. Very little critique and critical thinking. Just explanation, near verbatim from Amazon, of what is being released.

  Who are you watching
  And what are you watching them for
  The signs on your lampposts
  Say more about you than the crimes you abhor

  Your curtains twitch
  Spy on the neighbourhood witch
  It’s all a front
  For a neighbourhood witch hunt

  Watching the neighbours
  Or are the neighbours watching you
  It starts with surveillance
  Until they turn informer too

  www.subvert.fm/…/neighbourhood-witch

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “We used to have the village noticeboard, but as things have changed we no longer have that local connection”

  Can we just have that back instead? We could literally communicate about our own neighbourhood, within our own neighbourhood. We don’t need to include an American surveillance company.

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