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Oh, thank god, I was worried if there might not be a worldwide surveillance dragnet for in case I lost a pet iguana.
I'm.... flabbergasted. Unbelievable. Who would've thought?
Fucking scumbags.
No Duh?!
Anyone remember "Police Blotter" reports in local papers? Some were funny.
Someone called in with concerns about a neighborhood cat that is "continuously at large."
But they mostly gave people a very dark view of the world outside. This led to metal bars on doors and windows, sale of pricey security systems, and folks walking around scared of their shadow. That all moved over to apps like NextDoor, Citizen, and Ring's Neighbors.
Fear is a primal driver. People on those apps are constantly reporting "odd looking people" in their neighborhood. Not surprisingly, the pet "Search Party" feature goes through Neighbors. Those same users are primed to see bad people everywhere. They will happily accept any feature that promises "zero crime neighborhoods."
ANY feature.
And in other "no shit" headlines...
And they can ONLY Achieve this MONUMENTAL and IMPORTANT Task of Global Surveillance if we give THEM Tax Breaks! How EXCITING!
-American Politicians!
the fucked up thing is the number of people who actually thought it was ever about "dogs"
CREEE PEEEE!
Sorry, I only have a YouTube link for this: https://youtu.be/ROFblZ_-9q4
If you haven't seen it, Wyse (Ring competitor) released a pretty funny ad about this.
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FWIW, Ring announced they were canceling their partnership with Flock a few days ago following the Superbowl ad where they were universally dragged. https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-and-flock-cancel-partnership/
Do I think Ring is still running some sort of analytics on video feeds? Probably. Should you put anything from Amazon directly in the trash? Absolutely.
Silver lining I guess is that public pressure still works at least a little when companies try to go straight dystopian.
The partnership will happen later on when the noise has died down, and it won't be publicized.
Yeah, exactly. That shit's not gone at all. It's just hidden for now. And if we the public don't pay for it directly as a feature, these companies will still scoop up the data and just sell it to each other.
They're still doing the same with a different company. Don't remember the name.
Hell my relatives gifted me an amazon Alexa. I never even opened the box it came in. Lol
BOLO: Leftist dissenter. Apprehend at all costs.
Uploading to search party for facial match.......
Duhhhhhhhhh
Yeah it's called tracking everything that's happening and feeding it to AI so AI can predict and alert the owners of whatever we they decided is important to know about and predict, like threats to their power and ambitions by the stupid masses who should just accept they're slaves.
Birds?
