Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State
minorkeys@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A state that should have been obvious to everyone FFS. The cameras are pointed at neighbourhoods, the audio is poly directional, which includes inside the home, and are hooked up to wifi to transmit the data. We have facial recognition, speech recognition, even gait recognition, AI object identification, license plate readers, audio filtering, all automated and analysed for review and every smart device has cameras and microphones.
Yall are fucking morons for embracing all this shit and normalizing a surveillance state that none of have may control of. It’s been a slow moving car accident for 20 years that the masses are too fucking stupid and too arrogant to see.
mech@feddit.org 1 day ago
I don’t think you’re insulting the right audience here.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, we’re the people who’ve been sounding the alarm for 20+ years. I’m tired boss
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I swear the friendly future I had hoped of as a kid in the 80s/90s was either all propaganda, hijacked, or we actually did end up in an alternate timeline of pure fuckery.
This is not the future I evangelized.
And yeah, those of us who grew up through it have seen the horrific turn of potential things have taken from world changing awesome humanity, to absolute evil.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
100%
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
I’m pretty sure plenty if not most of people here pay most of their shopping with a card rather than cash, even though that shit at minimum goes into a database for ever and ever, probably shared with the authorities and in some countries just outright sold for pennies.
And don’t get me started with just how many Techies jumped into Tesla’s “surveillance nightmare on wheels” - I mean, Techies were very much a large block of early adopters of Tesla cars and this was already well after the Snowden Revelations.
Further, how many people are in the habit of accessing the Internet behind a VPN? (Personally, living in Britain at the time, the Snowden Revelations were what prompted me to start using a VPN regularly)
Whilst lots of people here have an actual “lets keep my digital footprint” mindset and praxis, I get the impression that most do not, and even those who bitch and moan about “surveillance” trade convenience (or, even worse, the Techie desire for “shinny new thing” thus getting shit like Alexa) for high digital visibility.
So yeah, maybe not “Yall”, but probably “Most of you”.