did my civic duty today:went to a local donut shopnoticed they had a new ring camera up

Fokeu 🇪🇺🚩

@Viss that's great. Ring is basically a bug that people voluntarily put inside their homes, kinda insane.

Nicovel0 🍉

@lizzard @ahltorp @zymurgic @Li@tech.lgbt money paid for the subscription still goes to Bezos, that’s why I will replace mine this summer when the sub is up for renewal.

Dan Jones

Those are all good and valid points.

Also, if you simply don't trust Ring to abide by the safeguards they claim to have in place, that's also valid.

Personally, I think having any camera that is connected to any sort of publicly available cloud is risky, because we've seen that the NSA has no problem hacking servers like that to increase their public surveillance network, and I have no doubt that the NSA would also help ICE in whatever crap they want to pull.

And if you don't want to use a Ring camera simply because they have any sort of agreement with Falcon, since Falcon is a terrible thing that shouldn't exist at all, that's also valid.

But it's important that we're not simply sharing rage bait without actually confirming the veracity of the statements first. The Trump regime and its allies use lies and misinformation to scare people into agreeing with them. It's important that we who oppose them don't use the same tactic.

So, we should be careful not to make up, or share unsubstantiated claims like "Every Ring camera is a surveillance tool for ICE", which the evidence doesn't show.

Tell people the truth.

Tell people that Ring works with local law enforcement, who works with ICE, and it's possible that ICE could see your camera feed. And that Ring says that safeguards are in place to ensure that the feed is only shared with your permission, but that those safeguards might not be sufficient, and that, in your opinion, it's not worth taking the risk.

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