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“It starts with searching for a ‘brown dog’ but means the tech is there for license plate reading
Next comes 'brown person'.
This is pretty much what I said to my wife while scritching my dogs. First it'll just be expanded to missing kids and olds, because of course everyone wants to reunite families, but eventually it'll be something that "law enforcement" can request for whatever the hell they want, because after all they're the good guys keeping us safe!
Aren't they already given full access?
Have been for a while. I think this is them getting ahead of more people realizing it. Puts it into the frame they want as opposed to ‘every step you take is being constantly tracked.’
I mean, I work with security cameras, and I’ve seen the tracking they can employ now. You can specify a color of shirt and color of pants to filter results with pretty solid accuracy and follow a specific person, or vehicle, across multiple cameras. I doubt it would take much to add filter by skin color.
For puppies though!!! Do you hate puppies!?
I’m a cat so yes
Have you tried bopping them on the snoot?
Iirc Ring cameras opt you into sharing your feed with the cops. Lotta reasons not to use ‘em.
You won't catch me with the Privacy Violator 3000 attached to my home.
I'll stick to Frigate... Wife and I were like "ya, no" when that aired
My immediate response to everyone around me when that commercial aired was a loud, "fuck no" followed by a, "if any of you get one I will no longer visit".
My Eufy doorbell camera doesn't do any of this creepy shit
Haha, thanks for exposing yourselves!
Their logic probably was like:
how can we make our users trust us?
How about we tell them that we can view the footage of any ring camera for security purposes? They will love us! They will think we are the ones whom keep this earth safe! We will be their saviors !
Very happy to see it backfire.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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