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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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[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Garbagio@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Does anyone have an actual source? A twitter link to a screenshot of another twitter post collage is bullshit sourcing.

[–] Jimbel@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Are you too stupid to look it up your self?

[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days 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

Illegal for you, I guess. I can wear a mask outside. Good luck down there in the US, guys.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I always thought of them as a privacy aid.

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 161 points 3 days ago (8 children)

This feels like it should be illegal in the EU.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 109 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Swede here, our laws disallow private security cameras from filming public areas.

The law is so broad that it interfered with dashcams, disallowing them for years.

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[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 108 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I'm losing my mind. Ring cameras everywhere, Flock cameras, ID/face verification, everything Google touches, airports, Tesla car cameras, every modern car actually, Meta glasses, Chat Control every year, the OSA, stores using facial recognition (and other tracking), social media billionaire shenanigans, Samsung installing Israeli spyware and putting ads on the fridges, fuck even the Windows 11+Chrome+iPhone combo I see in public. I could keep going. We could all keep going.

It's too much. Idk anymore. This post broke me a little.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I am Italian and I have much fewer reasons to feel like you, but I still do and, although loving the friends I made there, I know I will never again set foot in the USA, since this comes from a culture of surveillance dating back more than a century.

I am actually offering temporary accomodation to any of my friends who may want to try his luck in the EU.

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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm rapidly approaching the point where I go completely feral and begin smashing every advertisement and camera I see. Smashing large billboard screens and smearing shit on walls. Just to tear this monstrosity to the ground.

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[–] Defectus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This isn't legal where I live. It's not allowed to record public spaces

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Same here. All private cameras that record or process data from a public space need to be announced on entrance of a property. Though now that i think about it, idk how ring got passed that law to begin with in 99% of its use cases..

( if its a front door that can only view private property its fine iirc, and if it has public space like roads its a nono )

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago

Luckily I live somewhere where they will have to hide it

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Americans are fucking weird, they piss and moan about speed and red light cameras, and claim they are unconstitutional. However, the Ring shit is good to go.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 11 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Ring cameras don't toss a fine at you for walking past them too quickly.

Also, where are people complaining about red light cameras, so I can avoid taking my bike or car anywhere near there? It's probably a vocal minority, but I'd prefer to know and cover my ass. Just in case.

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[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ran into this one Halloween a few years ago. Fuckers had Halloween decorations out, seeming welcoming, and when my kid went up to the door they used their ring camera to make fun of him. Once society falls in the next year or two, that's where I'm going first.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

For legal reasons, he jusut told me in PM that he will go there to get more candy. He will take ALL their candy and EAT it in front of the ring camera.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So what happens to images of your face when they're stored? Who tf really knows. We do know these oligarchs will literally try to exploit and profit from literally anything and everything they get access to.

Some countries that aren't treated like a state run corporation are actually letting citizens copyright their own faces for their protection.

Dutch MPs want citizens to own the copyright to their faces

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

Uploaded to a database. Linked to your meta data full of wrong think. Face blown off by a AI built and operated kamakazi drone.

Sucks to be anyone that looks like you, but that is a price the 1% are willing to pay for complete control. Because what's left after you own all the wealth and assets?

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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We need to normalize spray painting the lenses on these things, as well as painting "big brother" on doorways of those that own them. If you enable fascism, you should expect some minor vandalism.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

You could start by sending them a letter that informs them of this occuring and how it impacts the world around them before you skip straight to vandalism. I'm sure a lot of people just never considered the extent of that data that is being shared so much as they figured only they would have access to the footage.

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[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know if it is the same brand, but my morning walks are cheered on by an increasing chorus/wave of "hello, you are currently being recorded". Weird dystopian vibes.

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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 46 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Everyone is so obsessed with surveillance. My uncle has a Ring and even if I told him about this, he wouldn't care; he wants to know who walks past his house. Now the cops will know whether he lied to them because they can subpoena Ring for their records. People are literally giving away their rights for the convenience of not answering the fucking door

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[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 3 days ago (20 children)

Great, my downstairs neighbor has one of these things that everyone has to walk by when going in or out of the main building. Why she needs one in an apartment building with a locked main door that you have to unlock yourself for guests is a mystery to me.

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[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 19 points 3 days ago (5 children)

We need an anti-camera movement in this country

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

I don't really think cameras are all that bad, the bad thing is the centralization. If someone is willing to record local-only for their own security I see nothing wrong with that.

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Not in Illinois it won't. The states attorney will have Amazon for lunch.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_Act

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

In EU this is also illegal

[–] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And you're always seen as a "weirdo" or "crazy" or maybe even a thief if you want to opt out with a mask.

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 47 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I went to my sister's house yesterday, she lived in a gated community and to visit i have to let them take a picture of my face and then scan the cam for access. i thought that's extremely obnoxious. This is far worst.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 38 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Yeah, no. I'd be inviting my sister to visit me instead.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Need to normalise IR and UV LED strobe flares, blind those CCDs.

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[–] DNS@discuss.online 8 points 2 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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[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

I’m very happy with my ubiquiti doorbell. It records to a local NVR on my network. No cloud for this guy!

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[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Given any large database this is going to be a massive problem.

Did someone steal your package?

Do you want to know who did it?

Will you settle for knowing which of the 385 people in the country look like your villain? Some of them may even be close enough to be falsely accused!

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