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Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? (www.usatoday.com)
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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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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 4 days ago (28 children)

just get a Chinese one like tapo so that the Chinese government can spy on you instead

[–] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Or hear me out,

Buy one that stores its data only on your local network and does not rely on corporate cloud or servers in any way or form.

This counts for all most all consumer home technology.

People should think about a NASS or Home servers like they do about owning a vehicle.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

People should think about a NASS or Home servers like they do about owning a vehicle.

I wholeheartedly agree. Hell, home server/nas should be more common than cars, I don’t drive every day, but my data is used every minute of every day.

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