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Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance (www.eff.org)
submitted 2 months ago by drmoose@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-st

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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (12 children)

And exactly this behavior ("I have no clue about the thing I will do, but I'll do it anyway without educating myself prior") is what makes everything suck more and more because it always gets adapted to the lowest common denominator.

We're only still alive because people need licenses to drive cars or fly planes.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

But this maybe implies that there's a possibility to change this behaviour. Which is infeasible. For many of the same reasons why we don't have people specialize in more than a couple of areas.If you're not implying that and you're just saying that in vacuum, then yeah sure. That said it's not the only reaaon why things suck more and changing this behaviour is not the only way to not have things suck, For example a government in a more democratic system might serve its citizens more than its corporations and ban these practices.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What? We can't make people read setup manual for 30minutes? Might as well stop living now because whats the point of our society if we are defeated by a pamphlet?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Always has been and it falls on the ones that aren't defeated by the pamphlet to help the rest, since the labour of the rest allows the standard of life pamphlet interpreters enjoy. 😂

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