Damn the west is really becoming brave new world huh. Although that said, I’m in Australia so I’m getting crumbs of the surveillance pizza everyone else is having.
Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
Submitted 10 hours ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
https://truthout.org/articles/super-bowl-ad-for-ring-cameras-touted-ai-surveillance-network/
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biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 34 minutes ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Yep. If you have a Ring doorbell, replace it as quickly as possiuble. It will not only be used against you, but also against your neighbours.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
“It starts with searching for a ‘brown dog’ but means the tech is there for license plate reading
Next comes ‘brown person’.
wjrii@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This is pretty much what I said to my wife while scritching my dogs. First it’ll just be expanded to missing kids and olds, because of course everyone wants to reunite families, but eventually it’ll be something that “law enforcement” can request for whatever the hell they want, because after all they’re the good guys keeping us safe!
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Aren’t they already given full access?
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I mean, I work with security cameras, and I’ve seen the tracking they can employ now. You can specify a color of shirt and color of pants to filter results with pretty solid accuracy and follow a specific person, or vehicle, across multiple cameras. I doubt it would take much to add filter by skin color.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
For puppies though!!! Do you hate puppies!?
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
I’m a cat so yes
meco03211@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Have you tried bopping them on the snoot?
doug@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
Iirc Ring cameras opt you into sharing your feed with the cops. Lotta reasons not to use ‘em.
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
My immediate response to everyone around me when that commercial aired was a loud, “fuck no” followed by a, “if any of you get one I will no longer visit”.
Etterra@discuss.online 7 hours ago
You won’t catch me with the Privacy Violator 3000 attached to my home.
dmtalon@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
I’ll stick to Frigate… Wife and I were like “ya, no” when that aired
JerryMerweather@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Haha, thanks for exposing yourselves! Their logic probably was like: how can we make our users trust us? How about we tell them that we can view the footage of any ring camera for security purposes? They will love us! They will think we are the ones whom keep this earth safe! We will be their saviors !
Very happy to see it backfire.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
My Eufy doorbell camera doesn’t do any of this creepy shit
blueworld@piefed.world 6 hours ago
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 minutes ago
Yes and a lot of people cheered. My wife was impressed until I told her what it was actually going to be used for. Like yeah, I’m sure they will also use it to help little girls find lost dogs, but its true purpose is to help law enforcement find brown people.
It’s kind of telling, they can’t get cameras on every street corner like the UK, so they just get homeowners (and some renters, I know they have a clip-on installation method) to supply the cameras AND pay a monthly fee for them! Like why is the government not funding this, since they’ll be using it? Because so many people are just willing to pay.
Worth noting, Apple did it first, with the Find My network. If you say a device you own is missing, your iPhone sends a signal, anonymously, to the Find My network, which includes every connected Apple device. You can’t opt yours out. So once an Apple device finds the “lost” device, it pings the device’s last known location. It never identifies people on the network (or so they say). So if you have Apple stuff, you’re part of this whether you want to be or not. And nothing malicious has ever been proven. But it is kinda sus, and it’s kind of the model Ring seems to be going with.