Post #2795086
2026-01-21 11:49 UTC
You don't get it. It's not about just one camera. They have the whole network and can run facial recognition and licence plate readers (that go well beyond just reading plates) across all of it. They don't just know that you left your house, they can track everywhere you go. Some courts have made that illegal for cops to do, so they just outsourced it.
Your camera is just a small piece, but it's a piece you control. Nobody should be throwing that shit up to the cloud. It's incredibly damaging to any kind of civil resistance movement. Stalin could only have dreamed of the kind of mass surveillance that Americans are just freely providing to our oligarchy. It's fucking dumb.
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@innermachine@lemmy.world 2026-01-21 14:01
This is a flawed argument. Your walking around with a phone in ur pocket, they don't need your camera to track you. That and just about every intersection has a camera on it. The network to track you has so many more data points than my ring camera. They track every penny you spend, where you work, where you buy groceries, the porn you watch. Yea my camera is contributing to mass surveillance, but as long as you own a cell phone getting rid of your ring camera isn't going to help you the way you might think. If you want to stop mass surveillance you need to boondock on public lands. Once you own anything and get connected to the internet, it's game over!