You may be tempted to roll your eyes and say that this was obvious, but there is a substantive difference between pointing out there is a slippery slope and having solid evidence that Ring's CEO is planning to expand Search Party beyond lost pets. Kudos to 404 Media.
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@evacide perhaps the system can be used to search for pedophiles too.
@evacide anyone who think this won't happen now... I also have a vacation in the beautiful red planet mars to sell you. They are going ahead with this to please the likes of pedo on chief's admin along with multiple three & one five letter agencies now, not as a public facing "feature" but as part of critical national security & intelligence apparatuses.
@evacide If a product is designed to ever be capable of a bad use then you should strongly suspect it was sealed designed to allow such use.
@evacide Unfortunately, after the intro comes a paywall. By the way, in Germany It's not allowed by law to film anything beide your own land. Hopefully this buys us some time before stuff like ring is introduced here.
@evacide This shouldn't come as much of a surprise. Ring's CEO has been very clear the company's intention is to "solve crime"
when I saw the superbowl ad it was an instant "jfc" moment. nothing good is going to come of Ring's plans.
@evacide It's basically the ones they have in shopping centres since early to mid last year, maybe earlier, but now on the streets. I don't even think they've been effective, other then being a privacy issue for many, including myself. I cover my bank card with my entire hand, so the AI can't steal my numbers. It's sad I'm not allowed to wear a balaclava while shopping.
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This summarized it for me:
"automated surveillance system" "uses AI" "on-by-default"
@evacide feels a lot like how they tried to sell us on "Stop and Frisk." Or the "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about" b.s. line they fed us.
ANY product networked back to some corporate mothership should be a no-go for anyone (big brother lovers obviously excused--and pitied.).
As for this ring thang? I mean hello? Amazon? Alexia? Spying on their users since November 2017 when it was proved amazon was recording everything their alexa devices could hear. (see amazon alexa wiki entry for deets)
People. Pay attention! MegaDigiCorps _always_ lie about privacy. And they don't stop when they are caught either.
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I think they had a lot of balls to throw this out there regardless of invasion of privacy issues.
No one can walk down the street anymore without being examined 5 ways to Friday with various tech as it is.
@evacide Another reason I won't install Ring anything.
@evacide Color me shocked...said no one who’s been paying attention. 😑
@evacide Absolutely. The 404 folks get a lot of "duh" or "slippery slope" type comments in feedback. I recall those specifically when Pokemon Go/Niantic was sold. But this stuff needs spelling out, and 404 do such meticulous reporting when they do so.
Our local anti-Flock organizers use reporting from 404 all the time.
@evacide 404 have been doing absolutely incredible work over the past few years, especially for such a small team. Genuinely impactful journalism.