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...

• kungen@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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