c/news · by floofloof@lemmy.ca · 301d

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/amazon-ring-partner-flock-network-183505529.html

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18 Comments

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 301d

Flock cameras work by scanning the license plates and other identifying information about cars they see.

The use of a "private" middle man is to circumvent the 4th amendment

https://legalclarity.org/are-automatic-license-plate-readers-legal/

SirSlothful@piefed.world · 29 pts · 301d (1 reply)

Reolink make excellent video doorbells that can be selfhosted

HurlingDurling@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 301d

Thanks, been trying on getting the ubiquiti one but its either stupid expensive or out of stock

Ironfist79@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 301d (2 replies)

Might be time to ditch technology.

magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 301d (1 reply)

corporate technology

My air-gapped Taiwanese IP camera, and the zoneminder Debian VM on my proxmox machine its connected to aren't snitches. (Except to me XP)

Ironfist79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 299d

Yeah but I'm too lazy to maintain all of that. I spend enough time working on stuff at work.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 301d

Oh, Ring was untrustworthy since forever...

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 14 pts · 301d

Wi-Fi deauthentication attack

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 301d (6 replies)

So how do you opt out?

And if you can't, what are the alternatives?

MinFapper@startrek.website · 8 pts · 300d (1 reply)

https://reolink.com/

Has all the same features, without the subscription or cloud account

projectsquared@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d

Seconded!

Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 301d (3 replies)

Don't buy a ring camera, and if you own one, it's e waste now.

Aeri@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 300d (2 replies)

Bad news, every s*** hole suburb in america's packed with these things and the golden retriever ass white people living there probably aren't going to be aware of this or care.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 300d

Say whatever you like about us white people, but leave golden retrievers out of this, please.

Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d

Agreed. If I ever do put up cameras, they are going to be stored locally

senorblackbean@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 301d

non-yahoo article link

MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 301d

Perhaps relevant for some: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2945470/ring-lets-police-ask-for-security-videos-heres-how-to-opt-out.html

LemUser@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 300d

Does this go for Amazon's BLINK cameras, too? They recently bricked their app unless you installed a mandatory update.