Oh noooo, that thing we warned people about when it came out is being misused in exactly the way we warned people it would be misused.

Oh nooooo.

I'm tired grandpa. Too damn many stupid people in this world.

We can only hope these companies are treated as collaborators in the future.

I will never have a goddamn camera in my home. If I did it will HAVE to be an old school disconnected one that records to a DVR or some SSD HD. I have zero interest in having any unauthorized or unknown access to the interior of my home. This is a goddamn outrage, how is everyone not throwing their ring cameras out already?

While you’re at it, don’t buy from amazon

I enjoy having cameras on my house to see what's going on in the neighborhood. It has come in handy at least once when my neighbor's truck was stolen in broad daylight.

They are ring cameras because two were installed already when I moved in. What should I switch to? I just really want motion alerts and proof when something bad happens.

Oh look another smart technology I didn't adopt for the exact reason being talked about. You can't trust big tech to not collaborate with whoever it's the most profitable to collaborate with.

Where are the hactivists?! Are they all too well employed?

Crazy how a company owned by Amazon would do this. /s

Yeah, the idea of Amazon running my home security did NOT appeal to me. I went with another brand.

It would be cool if we could hack the feeds shown by our own cameras to show images of Donald and Epstein together, so every time they look, everytime they use our cameras, it’s logged with images of Donny and his best friend

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This may finally convince my parents to get rid of their ring camera. Thank you

Time to invest in some CC cameras.

Of course that happened, that happens every time when you buy things but then don't own them.

I'll buy cams for my home, but they'll be for ME alone because they're MY cameras, MY video.

Obligatory fuck Amazon and fuck the USA

Here's an archive link in case anyone else refuses to give Substack views due to their affinity for Nazis: https://archive.is/ns4Yq

Ditch your internet connected shit and boycott these companies

This really highlights how important it is for people to understand what they’re opting into with smart devices. Transparency and informed choice matter more than ever.

You know they are in all of your cloud connected cameras, inside your home, inside your tesla, pretty much everywhere you have a camera... Definitely not just at your front door. The key thing to understand about the surveillance state is that they only acknowledge access of personal data if they intend to use it in a court room. Most of it is just used for spying, information gathering, and parallel construction if necessary.

I bought a ring camera in 2018 and I haven't replaced it. They disabled color view to try to get me to to buy a new one. Thankfully I haven't connected it to Amazon or anything yet. I immediately disconnected it after reading this, fucking Amazon.

Find me in your local library

I remember last year when there was a trend of AI generated videos that depicted animals or people doing ridiculous and crazy things on doorbell cameras. Everyone was surprised at how realistic they looked but never questioned why there was enough training data of doorbell cameras to make them in the first place.

Not that relevant, but it makes it pretty clear how "private" this data was in the first place.