Comment on 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...

Defectus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same here. All private cameras that record or process data need to be announced on entrance of a property. Though now that i think about it, idk how ring got passed that law to begin with

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  • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    idk how ring got passed that law to begin with in 99% of its use cases

    It doesn’t comply… but the responsibility falls on the person who mounts/uses the hardware, so Amazon does whatever they want.

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    • DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Right, wo i could in theory start sueing. Nice haha

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  • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same as non-legal ebikes perhaps? Where I live the police don’t seem to care unless the rider happens to be a drug dealer or otherwise wanted by the police.

    I’d take a guess that while a ring doorbell might be illegal and not enforced, it probably means the recorded footage might be not accepted in court if ever needed… Perhaps (I’m not a lawyer or even closed SE to an expert). Unless a doorbell inspector becomes a thing then it probably just slides.

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• buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was gonna say, I’m not sure this would hold up to legal scrutiny, not that that makes it ok in the first place.

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  • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Completely legal in the US.

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    • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I really don’t think so.

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      • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sorry to hear you feel that way. It can be tough to be confronted with something you’ve always felt was true but turns out to be false.

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