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IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 day ago

[Video] Ring advertises mass surveillance capabilities in SuperBowl ad

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[Video] Ring advertises mass surveillance capabilities in SuperBowl ad

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    '…and we can even find YOU, anytime we want to."

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    No this is fine it’ll only be used to find lost puppies I’m sure.

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    That’s actually insane to advertise that Gestapo feature. I’m literally shocked - which happens (unfortunately) rarely these days. There is so much shit going on in this world

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    Are there really enough braindead consumers out there to make this viable?

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      Based on what I’ve seen, it is so so so much worse than you think.
      I honestly don’t think the majority of those who see this ad will even consider negative uses of this system.

      And if you are thinking ‘how can people be that stupid’, I will remind you that college professors are having to change their curriculums because many of their students can’t read.

      So yes, it’s the day after the super bowl and I am quite sure the Gestapo cameras are flying off the shelves in the Amazon fulfillment centers.

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      Yes.

      Nextdoor is full of morons sharing their ring videos and then going, “Well my videos aren’t being shared online to Amazon because I checked the ‘privacy’ settings.”

  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Omfg I just watched this elsewhere. Also it’s free. How kind of them.

    I think this is just trying to put a good spin on it before any privacy concerns come up.

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    There should be a version where they’re brown and at the end they suddenly get bags put over their heads by Trump’s paramilitary.

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    anyone who objects to mass surveillance obviously hates puppies

    • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml
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      You got me, but actually I mostly want the christian families and their children to be sad

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    I hate it so much that these dystopian devices are all advertised as a positive thing and, worst of all, that there are millions of dumbasses going “well that sounds like a great idea!”

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      It’s ads like this that make people think it’s really great, without ever considering the surveillance aspect. Probably some people who now want to get Ring cameras, just so they can help track down lost dogs. Instead, it will be used to hunt down escaping humans.

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    “they who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

    Yes I know the issues with the founding father narrative. However, I think that this quote is very true and applies to the situation we are currently facing.

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    What brand do people recommend to switch family members off to? I self host my security but for other family that aren’t tech savvy at all which brands are good for privacy and intuitive to use?

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      Reolink. The cameras record to a SD card and the app connects to the cameras over the local network. The app can connect to the cameras remotely through Reolink’s servers for convenience, but it’s not necessary to use their cloud services. I block mine from the internet in the firewall.

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        this is precisely my setup too.

        Wife can even get to them when she’s out because she has tailscale connecting her phone to the home network via my headscale control node, not that she could tell you that

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      suggest a peep hole and a door knocker, don’t over comolicate shit, and have a little faith in other people

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        I was with you until the last part

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      Which mass surveillance fear product?

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      There isn’t one.

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    fuck those snitch ass doorbells

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    Our thought watching this live was to upload photos of your local ICE agents.

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      Upload?

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        Say they’re your dog, then have it find them

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    I wonder how hard it would be to rework this advertisements to be what it’s actually used for:

    • Immigrants spotted! Administrative warrant issued, ICE deployed!
    • Automatic License Plate Recognition with Flock (now a partner), found a “criminal”. Administrative warrant issued, ICE deployed!
    • etc.
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      Wait is flock seriously now partnered with ring?

      • thatkomputerkat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Yes. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

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        Has been since October

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          Gross, I had no clue. Now I might need to find replacements.

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            Ring was already “partnered” pretty closely with law enforcement, this is more of a consolidation than a new development. I’ve been saying this since they first floated the concept of CLOUD BASED SURVEILLANCE DOORBELLS but the whole idea is fucked. If you really feel a need for monitoring like that, set it up yourself. A corporation handling it is worse than nothing

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            Not might.

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              Have to.

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    And if I upload a photo of a brown-skinned person?

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    “since launch, more than a dog a day has been reunited with their family”

    Yeah, because cats know how to evade the fascist state. All Cats Are Beautiful …

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      400ish found out of 10 million is…incredibly pathetic, lol.

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        It’s apparently enough justification to get people to consent to having their doorbell cams used for surveillance by 3rd parties 🫠

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          Yall do it with your smartphones and your airtags anyway.

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            AirTag doesn’t have facial recognition. Also there is no reverse engineering who an AirTag belongs to. Not even Apple can see in their databases.

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            I consented to that when i accepted the EULAs on all the stuff i signed up for online over the years. I’m not consenting to this though! 😉

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      Fucking dumbasses losing their dogs every day.

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      I mean there are some ugly damn cats, for real.

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        Shut up. No. There. Is. Not!

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            goblin mode

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            That is a chupacabra. Not a cat.

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            I would massage all of his scalp wrinkles.

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            Ah i am feel ashamed. I wanted to put besides hairless cats. But i knew there are like a dozen cute ones in total. So i didnt thinking i was being mean.

            Im gonna downvote my own comment.

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                Don’t take the precious! Smeagol wants it!

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                Ugly but cute. If hairless, 🤮.

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                  In this case the other end of the cat is cuter.

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