Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
I do not visit homes with this garbage installed. I've got a little blurb written that I give to friends who own one, explaining why they're a problem and proposing some more privacy respecting alternatives. And before you ask, no, I don't have a lot of friends left.
Send this to those friends.
Could you send me the blurb?
You know it's an opt-in for the owners right? What are you doing anyways that makes you so worried police will catch you anyways?
I have no respect for the 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' argument, and I will not be engaging with it. You can simply Google why this is drastically wrong. It's not worth my energy to explain it.
Take 3 seconds to think about why this is a terrible way to think
While we're getting rid of our rights, let's just get rid of the entire justice system and democracy because people always do the right thing, especially cops who are never filmed all the time murdering people for their egos being hurt or just flagrant racism.
This HAS to be bait
Maybe be brown? Seems like an easy way to get in trouble nowadays.
I'm transgender and my boyfriend is Latino. we've got plenty to worry about
well given that the police don't seem to need a reason anymore, literally anything?
It's opt-in for now, but not if they don't get as many options as they want. Also ring cameras often show a lot more than your property they show the street and other neighbors houses as well.
In prep for the American social credit program.
I knew Ring was evil, but ....damn.
Well, at least my ex was smart enough to listen to me.
Still not smart enough to stay married to me, but good healthy decisions need to be praised for what they were.
There it is. Goddamn it took awhile for this shoe to drop.
Any recommendations for a replacement?
Ubiquiti. Their cameras record to a local NVR. If you only need one or two cameras, they have excellent router + NVR combos for a good price that will run circles around your default ISP WiFi router. If you’re interested, I can tell you what my setup looks like, how much it cost, and what I would have done differently.
Seconding the ubiquiti comment. Buy used parts on ebay (except the NVR, a somewhat recent update sunsetted the old system) like switches, USG, WAP…buy used if you can. Ubiquiti stuff is well built, at least “prosumer” quality if not better. New stuff is really pricey, and I bought new initially, but recently added on to our network and bought all ebay stuff for 1/3 the price.
I invested in a Reolink NVR and cameras over the summer. They’ve been an improvement over the Nest/Google cameras. Higher resolution, farther night vision, local storage, and I get notifications on my phone faster than I did with the Nest/Google. No annual/monthly fees which is also a bonus.
I’m replacing our ring doorbells with Reolink in the very near future.
Ubiquiti g4 doorbell maybe. It requires investment into the echo system but having its recordings locally stored is what I like about it.
I'm just going to leave this here:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
Who could have predicted this?
It's not shocking, but honestly surprised Amazon came late to the game. Surprise to no one, we already live in a heavy surveillance country. From our phones, to cars, TV's, computers, to shopping; we are all being watched. Yet, certain people lose their minds because Ring? Give me a kit-kat.
Go trick or treating like rest of us!
They've probably been doing it all a long, they're just making their data collection strategies public, in a political environment that won't attack them, even if the citizens do.
Everyone i know?