Tbh I think the people at the top still haven’t caught up with the rapid changing sentiments among the population. My zero-tech-savy retired mother in-law was talking to me about Palantir the other day.
Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?
Psythik@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I honestly didn’t know what they were thinking with that commercial. Why would you proudly advertise that you’ve built a massive surveillance network, on one of the most-watched yearly televised events too for that matter? Did they seriously believe that there wouldn’t be a major backlash? I mean I appreciate the blunt honesty in that commercial so I’ll give them credit for that.
Tradwench@thelemmy.club 5 days ago
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
My guess is that since Ring has a history of well-known collaborations with police and ICE, they wanted to re-frame their evil surveillance network as a way to save a puppy. Instead, lots of uninformed normies suddenly realized what those cameras are capable of, and had a huge negative reaction given the state of things.
groats_survivor@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Because in 3 weeks most people will forget about it. It’s brazen. They’ll still be the biggest doorbell company in America
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 5 days ago
They product does exactly what their customers want. Just the latter had not realised the implications for their own privacy, before the commercial, apparently.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
These people are so fucking out of touch that it’s ridiculous
FatVegan@leminal.space 5 days ago
People are really fucking stupid to buy their products in the forst place. So that’s what they were thinking and they were right.
Coyote_sly@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Because the most evil people on the planet are universally convinced that they’re heroes.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Presumably because most end users are in deep with the “if you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about” crowd … and besides it can find a lost dog /s.
They brought these sorts of intrusive cameras in the first place so privacy was not top of mind, or even in 2nd or 3rd place.
luciferofastora@feddit.org 5 days ago
I agree with other comments that this is probably an Executive issue. Decision-makers operating with incomplete information can make misinformed decisions. Whether or not end users actually are in that crowd is less relevant than whether the people making such decisions think the users are in that crowd.
In a game-theory framing, it’s a game with incomplete information. What you assume about others, including what you assume about their assumptions, influences your decisions. The sheer amount of players makes it a lot harder to model or predict.