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?
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@dangillmor In many of their cases yes it is
@dangillmor just call them what they are:
IF YOU HAVE A RING DOORBELL YOU'RE A TIMID, PARANOID TOOL.
@dangillmor If it’s on WiFi, the data passes through a number of servers and is “stored” somewhere, even if “temporarily”.
And that’s probably obscured in the long fine-print agreement you acknowledged before activating the camera.
@dangillmor this is why we have security cameras running Thingino, which is open source and not beholden to corporate interests or misuse.
@dangillmor if ICE isn’t using this yet they will.
Police use it, just listen to the scanners.
@dangillmor someone needs to figure out how to jailbreak ring doorbells
@dangillmor unfortunately when stupid neighbours install multiple of these crap... So sick of hearing "You are currently being recorded" loudly day & night. Only hope is Jeff gets more greedy and make them obsolete or make the subscription costs go through the roof.
@dangillmor when the Ring was just brought out, i participated in a writing contest with the topic "realistic dystopian"
And my short story was about a world where they used a camera in doorbells to track (gay) people.
Got back the story with the mention it was not realistic...
Well...
See who had the last laugh.
@dangillmor that's why I don't own one.
@dangillmor I wonder if we have to worry about other ring type cameras too or just Ring camera... a member of my household just bought an offbrand one...
@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.
@dangillmor it was my IMMEDIATE thought, much as the doggo thing is cute (ans very clever cutewashing).
@dangillmor who would have see that coming with all this convenient tools and technologies from all this "don't be evil" rougecapitalist companies.
@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.
What could possibly go wrong…