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Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State
(greenwald.substack.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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My dad rips his name out of junk mail and shreds it. He doesn't want his name tied to his address, which is ironic in the first place, given that he's already getting junk mail. He's been worried about hiding his identity, address, cars, etc from some unknown surveillance entity based around Red Scare beliefs. Still, a few steps short of foil hat types.
Then he went and got cloud-based cameras. He's clueless about smartphone privacy already. He resembles his friends in his cohort. They protested "leftist government surveillance" and then showed me that they'd will invite mystery surveillance in with the slightest promise of convenience.
Sounds about right. Boomers are adorable.
What's also interesting to me about this is imagining how many crimes they know about that they simply allow to take place.