Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored...

This feels like it should be illegal in the EU.

I'm losing my mind. Ring cameras everywhere, Flock cameras, ID/face verification, everything Google touches, airports, Tesla car cameras, every modern car actually, Meta glasses, Chat Control every year, the OSA, stores using facial recognition (and other tracking), social media billionaire shenanigans, Samsung installing Israeli spyware and putting ads on the fridges, fuck even the Windows 11+Chrome+iPhone combo I see in public. I could keep going. We could all keep going.

It's too much. Idk anymore. This post broke me a little.

I went to my sister's house yesterday, she lived in a gated community and to visit i have to let them take a picture of my face and then scan the cam for access. i thought that's extremely obnoxious. This is far worst.

Everyone is so obsessed with surveillance. My uncle has a Ring and even if I told him about this, he wouldn't care; he wants to know who walks past his house. Now the cops will know whether he lied to them because they can subpoena Ring for their records. People are literally giving away their rights for the convenience of not answering the fucking door

Not in Illinois it won't. The states attorney will have Amazon for lunch.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_Act

Great, my downstairs neighbor has one of these things that everyone has to walk by when going in or out of the main building. Why she needs one in an apartment building with a locked main door that you have to unlock yourself for guests is a mystery to me.

Need to normalise IR and UV LED strobe flares, blind those CCDs.

We need to normalize spray painting the lenses on these things, as well as painting "big brother" on doorways of those that own them. If you enable fascism, you should expect some minor vandalism.

I’m very happy with my ubiquiti doorbell. It records to a local NVR on my network. No cloud for this guy!

And you're always seen as a "weirdo" or "crazy" or maybe even a thief if you want to opt out with a mask.

Like I needed more reasons to never leave the fucking house.

Set anything with a ring camera on it on fire. It is the enemy.

Given any large database this is going to be a massive problem.

Did someone steal your package?

Do you want to know who did it?

Will you settle for knowing which of the 385 people in the country look like your villain? Some of them may even be close enough to be falsely accused!

We need an anti-camera movement in this country

Americans are fucking weird, they piss and moan about speed and red light cameras, and claim they are unconstitutional. However, the Ring shit is good to go.

I don't know if it is the same brand, but my morning walks are cheered on by an increasing chorus/wave of "hello, you are currently being recorded". Weird dystopian vibes.

So what happens to images of your face when they're stored? Who tf really knows. We do know these oligarchs will literally try to exploit and profit from literally anything and everything they get access to.

Some countries that aren't treated like a state run corporation are actually letting citizens copyright their own faces for their protection.

Dutch MPs want citizens to own the copyright to their faces

Ran into this one Halloween a few years ago. Fuckers had Halloween decorations out, seeming welcoming, and when my kid went up to the door they used their ring camera to make fun of him. Once society falls in the next year or two, that's where I'm going first.

My parents have one of these. 💀

Guess I'll be going into their place through the garage lmao

This isn't legal where I live. It's not allowed to record public spaces

Pray this isn't legal in the UK, under GDPR i don't think so but I'm not sure

Can't we make necklaces of intense IR radiation that block out our faces? Or does that not work anymore?

I really don't care what Amazon does with Ring's facial recognition. The populace doesnt give a fuck and trust me, I tried to give a damn but its like going up against a tide of stupidity that keeps smashing. No one bats an eye with Costco/WalMart/Target facial recognition software, let alone caring enough how companies like Apple sell your data or manipulate your wants/needs down to the pervasive marketing tactics that are threading the line of psyops.

Idiocracy came a lot sooner than expected and there is no closing that Pandora's box. I still try to refrain from and mask my digital footprint, but sadly with how how easily our data is passed around like a ladyboy aboard a navy ship, we're doomed

Pretty sure this will be illegal in Illinois too

Maybe we should bring back covid masks as a privacy/fashion statement now?

I was looking to install an electronic lock as a redundancy for the tumbler lock to decrease "have I locked the fucking door" anxiety.

The problem could be solved with Yale lock. I'd just be swapping the disadvantages of a Yale for the disadvantages of an Electric lock.

But cool automations are cool, and who doesn't love a little over engineering?

Awesome. Theres a couple right across the road from me with one of those things. Bet they dont take it down... cunts.

Reading the ring press release, I have to admit the features look useful. I wouldn’t mind a better way to know whether it’s someone I care about before I bother checking. Most unexpected doorbell ringers are solicitors that I don’t want to waste time with

They’re also coming out in December and there is not yet a way to disable that feature for privacy.

For those who care about their own privacy walking down the street …. Unless houses are very tight to the street, you should be more concerned with the higher resolution models also being released. We did have an incident where police asked me if I would check the camera and not only could I not identify the person, it was hard to tell they were a person (the idiots said “oh that was us, based on jacket color”) but my point is that with the limited resolution of current cameras, no one is identifying you unless you get pretty close. And it’s much worse at night. The new high resolution models may change that

if meta, google can do it, why cant amazon.