Another thing users are “agreeing” by default and have to opt-out?
Every town around me have installed these fucking things, covering every major route. In order to get out of my local area without being tracked I have to drive on some serious hillbilly roads. It’s exhausting.
Wouldn’t be surprised if the outage was caused by Palantir getting a shit load of new data suddenly.
When these ring cameras came out I got into an argument with a friend, who got one immediately, that they were just advanced tools for state surveillance.
I think I said something like, sure you can’t put a CCTV camera on every civilian door in the U.S. (also pointed at their neighbors) but you can sure as hell sell them their own.
A video doorbell sales dude tried giving me one for free. I said “I don’t want your company to spy on my neighbors so they can hand it off to the cops without my say-so” and he looked at me like I’m stupid.
Should have said ok and then destroyed it once it’s legally your posession
Fork to partner with kitchen
Key point: "Flock users can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with “evidence collection and investigative work.”
This is not any kind of live link. It is just another way to request a specific video recording be shared by the user. The user has full control. Ring already has the same system in place on their “neighborhood” platform.
I appreciate the optimism…
