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Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State (greenwald.substack.com)
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Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.

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[โ€“] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

First they sell the fear, then they sell the "solution". Poor on poor crime is down to record lows. What's up is government crime on poors, that has skyrocketed.

All these cameras do for the people who paid for them is provide a memento of the thing being stolen from the front yard. If you think you're going to show the video to a cop, and they're going to say, "Hey! I know that guy!", and then run off and retrieve your truck that's too big to fit in your garage, you are sorely mistaken.

Also, if you install these things inside your house, you can bet dollars to donuts that someone is gooning to your antics. I mean, besides your dad.

[โ€“] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I know a lot of times replies are viewed as "You're wrong!" but this, if anything, I think reinforces your comment:

I went looking for statistics and couldn't find any, but did run across these assertions:

  1. CCTVs of undefined/all types aupposedly increased crime clearance rates ("solved") by around 20%. I suspect most of these are higher-quality ones in businesses or on public streets
  2. Amazon claims 55% reduction in crime in pilot programs with doorbell cameras but a study by some org of that situation found no statistical difference

Certainly people are becoming more aware of those cameras and perhaps covering up to disguise their identity. So at most they might deter someone from going for your house, but as they become even more common, that effect will probably drop off.

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