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Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? (www.usatoday.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

In Belgium, it is legally required to put a sign up if you have cameras, you can't point them at a place including public properties IIRC, and you can force them via the local government to move the camera if they are pointing at your property (at least in theory).

Lasers. Blue lasers are what you can do. https://www.reddit.com/r/Ring/comments/wqxkdq/what_is_this_person_doing_to_my_camera/ (hate to link to reddit but it is a good demo)

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 1 points 29 minutes ago

And DEAUTH attacks. Because they're all dumb wifi cameras. You can keep them jammed and destroy them while they can't upload footage.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

it is similar here in czechia, at least in theory, but the theory will always differ from real life.

you first have to know there is a camera to identify the problem, then if you are in doubt... i don't know, sue them to prove that camera does not capture your property?

it would take few years, because the justice system here works on geological scales. and before you would get any reasonable result, billion other cameras would pop up meantime.