Many private citizens who previously used Ring also reacted negatively. “Viral videos online show people removing or destroying their cameras over privacy concerns,” reported USA Today. The backlash became so severe that, just days later, Amazon — seeking to assuage public anger — announced the termination of a partnership between Ring and Flock Safety, a police surveillance tech company (while Flock is unrelated to Search Party, public backlash made it impossible, at least for now, for Amazon to send Ring’s user data to a police surveillance firm).
People are fucking stupid. I don't have one but my neighbor across the street has one. Which means the dumb fucking camera notes every time I leave and go, everything i do at my house, records my children, and looks inside my house 24/7 unless i close my front blinds and uses facial recognition and Ai to track me and everyone else. All so these same dumbfucks at work can be like "oh wow my package was delivered"
Doesn't even matter that i don't have one. All my dumb fuck neighbors do.
This is what kills me. I know people what when I mention this or the cameras on teslas and modern crap cars. I always get hit with. Well the convenience and basically its inevitable so I might as well make my life convenient. Its like people forgot technology used to be exciting and fun and yours not spying and data collecting. Its like the older generations forgot everything they warned the younger about and now that its convenient to them it doesnt matter, hand over the I.D. (i dont wanna watch what my kid does and be a parent), allow the smart tv to track (at least I can still watch my shows), let amazon activate the cameras (its so that way it helps others). The mentality of people needs to chance. Seems the camera issue is whats waking up some but dang there are too many willing to sell freedom, anonymity and personal information just so they can have their toilet flush from their phone, or a vacuum that can track your house layout.
I have to let everyone knows what Google is doing. Every time you use Google map shit, they rat on the police saying Police near by. Don’t like that because criminals and illegals are more careful when they are using the app. They sucked. They are warning the bad people on the streets in other words.
So first - Google doesn't rat on the police. The app users do. You can mark when you see a cop to warn others to slow down. Google allows it but the users actually do it.
Second - In case you aren't aware, the police themselves do it too. There is a small difference though - they will drive along a highway marking areas where they want people to think police are. A lot of times they do it when a highway goes through an urban area so people slow down.
It's all a cat-and-mouse game.
The apps also do other stuff like warn you about all kinds of idiotic things like railroad crossing ahead, car on shoulder, roadkill on street, fog, and a bunch of other things I've forgotten because I don't give a rip about any of them. The point is - they aren't just "ratting on the police". If having that feature helps people to slow down that's great.
I use it in my hometown because the police patrol 24/7 writing tickets for as little as 3 miles over the limit - in a 55mph zone (not even 10%). All that does is pisses people off, raises their insurance, and puts out a reputation of speed-traps so people in surrounding towns spend their money in other places instead of risking a ticket here. It also gets people to avoid the city and go the long way around when going somewhere. More traffic through neighborhoods, less revenue for businesses downtown. We've lost many restaurants and businesses - couldn't even keep a KFC. However we have 7 donut shops that thrive.
Destroy alexa too.
You spelled Amazon wrong....
Alexa is their spy gadget n.1
I am very aware of that.
Good.
We good? I just want to make sure I am destroying the correct thing.
Yea get back to 1930 thats when they fucked it up.
just like your wireless phone.
Yep, full of bloatware that cant be uninstalled without jailbreak.
Destroy all 'thinking machines'. Frank Herbert
Destroy the simulation metaverse singularity machines
exactly
Many private citizens who previously used Ring also reacted negatively. “Viral videos online show people removing or destroying their cameras over privacy concerns,” reported USA Today. The backlash became so severe that, just days later, Amazon — seeking to assuage public anger — announced the termination of a partnership between Ring and Flock Safety, a police surveillance tech company (while Flock is unrelated to Search Party, public backlash made it impossible, at least for now, for Amazon to send Ring’s user data to a police surveillance firm).
"...public backlash made it impossible, at least for now, for Amazon to send Ring’s user data to a police surveillance firm)."
I'm not sure you can count on Amazon doing what it says it's doing.
This is a video with Senator Hawley and 23andme: https://www.facebook.com/CBSNews/videos/senator-to-23andme-ceo-hope-customers-sue-you-into-oblivion/4072240803096261/
It's not the same company, but "they are all in the same club."
Why is this surprising to anyone? Y’all really thought a camera connected to the internet was only for you?
Craziest part was that people were so naive and retarded they actually used these things inside their home.
People are fucking stupid. I don't have one but my neighbor across the street has one. Which means the dumb fucking camera notes every time I leave and go, everything i do at my house, records my children, and looks inside my house 24/7 unless i close my front blinds and uses facial recognition and Ai to track me and everyone else. All so these same dumbfucks at work can be like "oh wow my package was delivered"
Doesn't even matter that i don't have one. All my dumb fuck neighbors do.
Yep
Because people are retarded. It has been obvious for years that these cameras are a mass surveillance system.
This is what kills me. I know people what when I mention this or the cameras on teslas and modern crap cars. I always get hit with. Well the convenience and basically its inevitable so I might as well make my life convenient. Its like people forgot technology used to be exciting and fun and yours not spying and data collecting. Its like the older generations forgot everything they warned the younger about and now that its convenient to them it doesnt matter, hand over the I.D. (i dont wanna watch what my kid does and be a parent), allow the smart tv to track (at least I can still watch my shows), let amazon activate the cameras (its so that way it helps others). The mentality of people needs to chance. Seems the camera issue is whats waking up some but dang there are too many willing to sell freedom, anonymity and personal information just so they can have their toilet flush from their phone, or a vacuum that can track your house layout.
They act like it was hard to retrieve the video. If your paying a sub why?
"unwittingly"
I have to let everyone knows what Google is doing. Every time you use Google map shit, they rat on the police saying Police near by. Don’t like that because criminals and illegals are more careful when they are using the app. They sucked. They are warning the bad people on the streets in other words.
So first - Google doesn't rat on the police. The app users do. You can mark when you see a cop to warn others to slow down. Google allows it but the users actually do it.
Second - In case you aren't aware, the police themselves do it too. There is a small difference though - they will drive along a highway marking areas where they want people to think police are. A lot of times they do it when a highway goes through an urban area so people slow down.
It's all a cat-and-mouse game.
The apps also do other stuff like warn you about all kinds of idiotic things like railroad crossing ahead, car on shoulder, roadkill on street, fog, and a bunch of other things I've forgotten because I don't give a rip about any of them. The point is - they aren't just "ratting on the police". If having that feature helps people to slow down that's great.
I use it in my hometown because the police patrol 24/7 writing tickets for as little as 3 miles over the limit - in a 55mph zone (not even 10%). All that does is pisses people off, raises their insurance, and puts out a reputation of speed-traps so people in surrounding towns spend their money in other places instead of risking a ticket here. It also gets people to avoid the city and go the long way around when going somewhere. More traffic through neighborhoods, less revenue for businesses downtown. We've lost many restaurants and businesses - couldn't even keep a KFC. However we have 7 donut shops that thrive.