Comment on Mozilla Foundation - Tell Amazon to Fix this Big Security Flaw in Ring Doorbells
ShunkW@lemmy.world 8 months agoYou’re generally in a public place. At least in the US, you have no expectation of privacy in public. Anyone can record you without your consent
otter@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
While that might be true, I think some of these expectations and understandings are based on a world that no longer exists.
In the past, you could only be seen by the few people around you. Even when recorded, there was a limited number of people that could see the video. Now some influencer can run up to you and share your reaction with a few hundred million people. On the side of data collection, companies have so much more aggregate data that they can use and abuse. With newer algorithms to analyze that data, they can keep pumping more and more data into it to figure out intimate details about who you are and how you feel about things.
So yea that might be how our laws and social norms are set up now, but we don’t have to stick to it if it doesn’t make sense anymore.
Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
How long in the past are you talking? Ring cameras are basically just cheap CCTV cameras which have been around for an incredibly long time. You’re complaining you can’t walk in front of people’s houses without being recorded I guess, but how long have you been complaining about not being able to walk past your gas station or Walmart?
It’s a larger scale, but honestly private property deserves the protection more.