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A Super Bowl ad for Ring security cameras boasting how the company can scan neighborhoods for missing dogs has prompted some customers to remove or even destroy their cameras.

Online, videos of people removing or destroying their Ring cameras have gone viral. One video posted by Seattle-based artist Maggie Butler shows her pulling off her porch-facing camera and flipping it the middle finger.

Butler explained that she originally bought the camera to protect against package thefts, but decided the pet-tracking system raised too many concerns about government access to data.

"They aren't just tracking lost dogs, they're tracking you and your neighbors," Butler said in the video that has more than 3.2 million views.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

my next door neighbor has a camera that seems to look like a ring... I mean I'm not gonna approach their door for no reason to check if it is a ring, but like... if it is a ring... then oh well, NSA is right by my door.

And I'm in a deep blue city btw... neighbor is a renter and is Black, so.... yeah... minority working class inadvertantly have a spy camera on their door

Front door is like right next to each other... like the camera can see me walking in the the path into my own house, it makes a sound when it detects movement and I heard the sound thing trigger even when walking only on my side of the yard

...And my family are immigrants...

so yay, our movements are probably in an ICE database

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Do you still have chinese citizenship? A few immigrant friends have gotten the paperwork ready, either to return to their home country or immigrate elsewhere, just incase ICE picks them up, they can agree to self-deport instead of ending up in a salvadorian concentration camp indefinitely.

IDK how the chinese US citizenship thing works, maybe China'd accept getting literally deported as proof you're not a US citizen.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

According to google (I am not a lawyer) I don't have it anymore the moment I got US citizenship since they don't do dual citizenship and honestly I don't really want to live in mainland China.

If I had to leave the US, I rather go to Canada, Australia, or perhaps EU for asylum...

Or perhaps Taiwan, or maybe Singapore.

I know from your post history, you seem to like PRC, but please understand that I have a personal grudge against the CCP, I was the second child (precisely a second son so there was no exemption whatsoever) in my family born during the One Child Policy, I really hate the fact that they tried to terminate me when I was still a fetus, then afterwards deny my existence by refusing to issue my legal documents until they made my parents pay a huge fine... which feels like extortion IMO.

I feel like my existence in China is "illegal", I feel rejected. I don't wanna be there.

I have an existential crisis over it... I'm not even supposed to be alive in this world, I'm an anomoly.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

According to google (I am not a lawyer) I don’t have it anymore the moment I got US citizenship

Yes, but if the US says you never actually had citizenship, maybe China will accept that.

If I had to leave the US, I rather go to Canada, Australia, or perhaps EU for asylum

I've heard they've made it harder to get asylum, and there's often poor outcomes for asylum seekers, after Arab Spring. If you have a US passport and money to start a business or any extended family, you can stay for quite awhile. This applies to most of Asia too where US passport gets you 90 days on arrival, or 90 day evisa for vietnam. US passports are pretty powerful.

Or perhaps Taiwan, or maybe Singapore.

Never been to either, can't tell you about it.

I have an existential crisis over it… I’m not even supposed to be alive in this world, I’m an anomoly.

Eh, it's a different place now. My family who worked there in the 90s and 2000s had completely alien experiences to when I went there in last year. All I'm saying is it'd be wise to be aware of what options you have.

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

His icon suggests Taiwanese.