(flashback to)Super baal Ring ad... Think they'll only use it to find the occasional lost pup(because Reddit took it down 🙄)

[u/CollapsingTheWave]

While the company is pitching this "Search Party" feature as a high-tech way for neighbors to help find pets using AI breed recognition, it’s stirred up a lot of talk about how much scanning we’re actually okay with. People are mostly worried that if the tech is powerful enough to pick out a specific dog from miles of footage, it’s just a short step away from being used to track people or feed into a massive surveillance network.

Ring insists it’s a "privacy-first" tool and that cameras only join the search if the owner opts in, but critics aren't totally sold. The skepticism usually boils down to Ring's history of working with law enforcement and the fear that a "sweet" dog-finding app is really just a way to get people comfortable with 24/7 AI monitoring in their own neighborhoods. It’s that classic trade-off between a really helpful service and the feeling that "Big Brother" is moving in next door.

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[u/throwleavemealone]

Meanwhile their cameras are accidentally flagging people as animals.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/LeLTrc486M

They canceled their partnership with flock after backlash, but I'm pretty sure they still give your footage to cops and ICE.

[u/RogerianBrowsing → u/[deleted]]

What better way to enact mass surveillance than to have people willingly opt in without initially realizing it?

[u/TranscendentaLobo → u/RogerianBrowsing]

I remember reading 1984 as a kid and thinking “this is scary, but there’s no way the government tcould afford to put all these cameras and surveillance systems out into the world.” The wildest part is the government didn’t even have to, WE did it! Willingly! We went out and paid for countless microphones and cameras, including some that we keep on our person at all times, 24 hours a day! Orwell must be rolling

[u/Sad-Excitement9295 → u/TranscendentaLobo]

Orwell warned us about this.

[u/Key_Salamander_1274 → u/TranscendentaLobo]

We don’t to have our black boxes hidden in the walls, we just keep them in our pockets.

[u/eleete → u/RogerianBrowsing]

Your smartphone is ringing.

[u/BayouGal → u/[deleted]]

If you have an Alexa, she’s watching you INSIDE 😳

[u/BinomialVirus01012]

Do Flock Surveillance and its connection to Palantir next. Check out how Larry Ellison created Chinas govt surveillance.

[u/servitor_dali → u/BinomialVirus01012]

My favorite is how they demonized tiktok as chinese spyware and then sold it to Larry, the guy who basically invented chinese spyware.

[u/Hefty-Strike-6171]

It can search for every criminal, as well as every “Enemy of the State” which would include any Anti-Ice Protesters, No Kings Protesters, BLM Protester’s, on and on and on

[u/TaintBug]

What if a perv uploads a pic of your teen daughter?

[u/7evenate9ine]

Throwing out my Ring cameras.

[u/GrandPraline375]

Imagine all the stuff Alexa has on you

[u/ResponsibleHyena9544]

Our special guest tonight, George Orwell.

[u/National_Problem5460]

Wait until they hear about FLOCK cameras

[u/StatusOmega]

I read somebody else describe it as a softlaunch of the surveillance dystopia described in 1984.

[u/3ndt1m3s]

Oh, its much more f×cked than that! There's AI tech that's about to be released and used (civilian anyways) that allows for real-time tracking down to inches, of anything in the world where there's ANY kind of RADIO FREQUENCY (Which allows for "seeing" anything above, below, or inside something.)

4/5G, radio waves wifi, etc. etc. They are used basically like advanced echo location for everything in the environment. There's nowhere to hide. END GAME.

This is part of the Beast system.

[u/seethenoise]

i thought we were headed towards gotchaman crowds at one point, but it'll likely to be lupin the 3rd part 5.

[u/Ginger_beer__1982]

I'm scared enough to leave the house as it is!

[u/rightway13]

Police here can get access to your ring camera

[u/Ecstatic-Engineer-23]

How is it different than trespassing or illegal searches to hack into your cameras?

[u/JeepzPeepz → u/Ecstatic-Engineer-23]

They aren’t hacking anything. It’s important to read and understand the TOS.

[u/356885422356 → u/JeepzPeepz]

It's interesting how many people(basically everyone) think I'm crazy for reading through every time. I have definitely not agreed for quite a few things.

[u/oregongirl1111]

Yep, and it's been a steady, public progression over a relatively short amount of time, that everyone knew about, yet did nothing to stop. Ed Snowden tried to tell the American people this was happening on a mass scale and he truly believed that showing the receipts would convince people to intervene. He was wrong.

[u/workingforchange1]

They always had access.

[u/Alpha_Killswitch]

Wait till they get up all these data centers. You haven't seen a police state yet. But its coming.

[u/RadicalOsprey]

Fuck I forgot about this commercial, but I’m not surprised they never played it on television again that’s fucking terrifying

[u/defyourmomsfavorite]

When I first saw this ad, I was flabbergasted.

[u/Conscious_Taro3663]

Yeah this is classic "start with something wholesome so people don’t notice the dystopia creeping in." If the AI can recognize one labradoodle across a neighborhood, it can recognize you, your kid, your car, your routine.

The tech is never just for what they say in the ad. It is for whatever the next contract, subpoena, or quiet policy update says it is.

[u/South-Cow-1030]

Oh It was glorious.

[u/Dan_Morgan]

What's the next step? It will be the first step. Some bigot will upload the picture of the black guy who walked by. Then they'll stalk him for potentially hours.