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A Super Bowl ad for Ring security cameras boasting how the company can scan neighborhoods for missing dogs has prompted some customers to remove or even destroy their cameras.

Online, videos of people removing or destroying their Ring cameras have gone viral. One video posted by Seattle-based artist Maggie Butler shows her pulling off her porch-facing camera and flipping it the middle finger.

Butler explained that she originally bought the camera to protect against package thefts, but decided the pet-tracking system raised too many concerns about government access to data.

"They aren't just tracking lost dogs, they're tracking you and your neighbors," Butler said in the video that has more than 3.2 million views.

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[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

does anyone have a link to the original superbowl ad?

Found it: https://youtu.be/hiaIHLwJvPQ?t=1449

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why? They finally woke up to the fact they were being spied on and that they pay money for the privilege of doing so..

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I chose Reolink. AFAICT it's not leaking anything outside my network and it's fairly inexpensive. Not as cheap as the subsidized Ring brand but hey, at least I own them.

[–] digger@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 days ago

I've got a few Reolinks. I have them set to record to a local SD card and have blocked outside internet so that they're not phoning home.

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[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

The most appalling thing is the advertisers and whoever approved this live in a bubble where people are ok with massive surveillance, and don't imagine people will freak out when they see how Amazon can watch them. At least Meta knows their users hate them but are hostages of their network, that's why Meta buys or crushes competitors before they become too big. I've not seen that since a Ford's VP bragging about how much Ford will know absoltuely everything you do with "your" car (is it really?) and backpedaled live as he realized journalists were horrified. That was a long time ago. Today it's common.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why anyone ever thinks empowering psychopathic companies is ever a good idea is beyond me. They ALWAYS fuck us over. Every damn time.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why would you wire your house up to this shit anyway.

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[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Cancel prime too

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In regards to flock I wonder if there’s any material we can use on our dash or license plate that the cameras cannot see. I think I saw something like that but unsure if it’s effective.

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[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

the other day I heard someone make the point that Amazon is just a more successful Palinteer

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[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 18 points 2 days ago

For anyone who has a Ring camera, wants to get rid of it, but still wants a doorbell camera for security/convenience reasons, I'll point out that Ecobee has a fairly good rating on Mozilla's Privacy Not Included page where they review products for their privacy.

E2EE transmission of video from the camera to your phone when streaming, on-device processing of video feeds, auto-deletes any cloud footage when people uninstall the app (so non-technical users who think uninstalling an app deletes their data will actually get that benefit), only saves clips when actual motion is detected, first line of their privacy policy is "Your personal information and data belong to you", and their subscription is 100% optional.

Only real privacy concern is that if you choose to integrate yours with Alexa, it might get some data from that, but that's optional. The main downside is just that they only have a wired option for outdoor setups, but they do have an indoor one that doesn't require any kind of hookup directly into wires in your wall.

As always though, if you have the technical ability to set something up yourself that runs only on your local network, do it.

[–] Biohive@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
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