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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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[–] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Pretty sure this will be illegal in Illinois too

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

Luckily I live somewhere where they will have to hide it

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] DNS@discuss.online 6 points 1 month 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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

target is a given, they probably had it for a decade+ to catch shoplifters who hit multiple stores.

[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe we should bring back covid masks as a privacy/fashion statement now?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry, that's illegal now

876.12 Wearing mask, hood, or other device on public way.—No person or persons over 16 years of age shall, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter upon, or be or appear upon any lane, walk, alley, street, road, highway, or other public way in this state.

It's part of the big campaign to disrupt criminal anarchy, treason, and other crimes against public order

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[–] PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

"One step closer?" Good one. Total surveillance is already here and has been for a while.
This Ring fuckery just makes it even more convenient for ~~fascists~~ law enforcement to find you.

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