If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state.

Dan Gillmor

If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=698b47cbe724d10001786209&attribution_type=post

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What could possibly go wrong…

Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor

@dangillmor This eventuality is exactly why I researched and purchased a Eufy instead of Ring. Eufy records locally, not the cloud, on a continuous loop that overwrites itself about every 90 days.

Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor

@AdminKirsty Thanks

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@dangillmor who would have see that coming with all this convenient tools and technologies from all this "don't be evil" rougecapitalist companies.

Patrick

@dangillmor thanks for sharing! I thought I was the only one who was scared about this ad. Combined with Tesla camera surveillance this is a wonderful toolset for any authoritarian government.

dryad

@dangillmor it was my IMMEDIATE thought, especially recently, much as the doggo thing is cute (and very clever cutewashing).

Shredd Tone :bh_s_k: :chk_g_w:

@dangillmor Dammit! Why does society choose to walk into these things all the time?

We could've easily avoided all of this if we choose to just reject this, but that's only possible if we choose to.