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Not buying it.
The product leadership, directors and executives who dreamed this nightmare up and believed in it enough to make it a reality are still there.
Never trust them again.
It feels like the cat’s out of the bag and they will just go ahead with whatever they planned on doing with this partnership, but not be as open about it. Bury it somewhere in the user agreement.
Agreed. For anyone not already following Louis Rossmann, he's a right-to-repair guy on an anti-surveilance arc and is always posting good information that will make you seethe.
His city tried to buy Flock cameras and he organized enough resistance that they cancelled... but then they are trying again a while later, assuming the scrutiny is off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MiLiQ6olkI
Ring will do the same thing.
Microslop, Meta, Google, et al will get their hands slapped when they are too proud about how they are fucking you, and then will issue a retraction, but only long enough to let the anger die out before doing it again more quietly.
This happens every time there is blow back on something like this.
They will reverse course and slow walk it a bit every 3 or 4 months and we will be back here in a years time.
Someone's bonus depends on this deal at Amazon, they are still going into work tomorrow and they still want that bonus.
Or they'll just build a backdoor into it (it probably already exists) and never talk about it again.
again ?
Ok, keep on distrusting them like before...but this time do it with a bit more pizzazz. Maybe do some jazz hands?
Wadda ya want, revolution ? Hmm...
We aim to misbehave
Wadda ya want, revolution ? Hmm...