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Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... (lemmy.world)

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Jason Bassler | @JasonBassler1

Big Brother just got an upgrade.

Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored, tagged, & analyzed without consent.

One step closer to total surveillance.

[Image: A Ring doorbell camera mounted on a brick wall. A digital overlay shows facial recognition scanning a person's face with grid lines. Text on the right reads "Amazon's Ring Adds Facial Recognition to Home Security" with additional text below.]

6:00 PM | Oct 4, 2025

Source: https://x.com/JasonBassler1/status/1974640686419857516

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[–] xxce2AAb 23 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Like I needed more reasons to never leave the fucking house.

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[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My parents have one of these. 💀

Guess I'll be going into their place through the garage lmao

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[–] DNS@discuss.online 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I really don't care what Amazon does with Ring's facial recognition. The populace doesnt give a fuck and trust me, I tried to give a damn but its like going up against a tide of stupidity that keeps smashing. No one bats an eye with Costco/WalMart/Target facial recognition software, let alone caring enough how companies like Apple sell your data or manipulate your wants/needs down to the pervasive marketing tactics that are threading the line of psyops.

Idiocracy came a lot sooner than expected and there is no closing that Pandora's box. I still try to refrain from and mask my digital footprint, but sadly with how how easily our data is passed around like a ladyboy aboard a navy ship, we're doomed

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[–] Highlandcow@feddit.uk 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Pray this isn't legal in the UK, under GDPR i don't think so but I'm not sure

[–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

GDPR states that saving personal data without consent is illegal and on top you have the right to be deleted and forgotten. I am not even allowed to have a none recording camera sending the image from in front of my door because the space in front of my door is not my private property.

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[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yall gonna stop paying companies so you can't help build the surveillance state? No? Awesome...

[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Can't we make necklaces of intense IR radiation that block out our faces? Or does that not work anymore?

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A balaklava and a can of spray paint would be cheaper and more effective.

[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Well one of these things is undetectable to the naked eye and the other is a costume for being arrested

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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago

The problem is Amazon has this. I don lt care if my neighbors do this. But random corporations should not be involved.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

walk fast, carry stickers

[–] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Pretty sure this will be illegal in Illinois too

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[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was looking to install an electronic lock as a redundancy for the tumbler lock to decrease "have I locked the fucking door" anxiety.

The problem could be solved with Yale lock. I'd just be swapping the disadvantages of a Yale for the disadvantages of an Electric lock.

But cool automations are cool, and who doesn't love a little over engineering?

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