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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

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Re: Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

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This is a temporary rollback while there’s a choice to speak against it. Cloud connected doorbells must die as well as dragnet surveillance.

I worked in large union data centers, decades ago.

Cannot even imagine what is going on these days, inside & out.

Re: Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

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post #6

This is a temporary rollback while there’s a choice to speak against it. Cloud connected doorbells must die as well as dragnet surveillance.

I worked in large union data centers , decades ago. Cannot even imagine what is going on these days , inside & out.

Can you elaborate? This is interesting

Re: Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

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Spiderman pointing at Spiderman?

The tech industry is a bloody Spider-Man pointing orgy at this point.

The success case for much of silicon valley seems to be government contracts. Gov't is the polite way of saying military

Re: Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

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Meaning they’ll wait until about June and then quietly roll it out

Yep. Anyone got alternatives? I love the convenience of a video doorbell but I really really would like to not help the police or ICE or anyone else for that matter unless I decide it's a good idea.

Re: Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

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Which Super Bowl LX ads haven't backfired yet?

The Anthropic one? Although I'm sure they'll put ads into claude eventually

Early audience response suggested the message struggled to land. According to an iSpot survey of 500 viewers, the ad’s likeability score placed it in the bottom 3% compared with Super Bowl ads over the past five years. Its top-two-box purchase intent scored 24% below Super Bowl norms and 19% below ads in its category that aired over the last 90 days. Viewers most commonly described their reaction as “WTF,” signaling confusion around both the message and the execution.

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/super-bowl-revealed-a...

Re: Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

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Meaning they’ll wait until about June and then quietly roll it out

Yep. Anyone got alternatives? I love the convenience of a video doorbell but I really really would like to not help the police or ICE or anyone else for that matter unless I decide it's a good idea.

We've got an analogue video phone on our apartment. Works flawlessly. No digital path other than the ring selection. Has a flat monochrome CRT which is kind of cool.

I made it half a century without a doorbell in my phone. I don't need it now.

Re: Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked in large union data centers , decades ago. Cannot even imagine what is going on these days , inside & out.

Can you elaborate? This is interesting

I worked across several facilities and obviously cannot talk specifics about those. It is public knowledge that one of them housed a large metro area's main ISP "meet-me room."

During Snowden revelations I'd already been apprenticing for years; nothing Edward documented surprised me. I'd literally walk around our 500,000sqft elevated floors knodding my head [none of this exists, officially].

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Nothing is as it seems.

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During DEF CON ~XX~ (approximately same timeframe as story above) it was publicly revealed that intelligence communities had redefined the word "intercept," to mean when a human operator catelogs a certain piece of data/traffic (i.e. not algorithms sorting). #1984 #newspeak #elevenyearsago

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