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Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

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  • qasimrashid@mastodon.socialQ qasimrashid@mastodon.social

    Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

    They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

    Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

    "We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

    I'm uninstalling my RING today.

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    #14

    @QasimRashid Please and thank you. Uninstall that piece of surveillance crap. They pad their profits by selling data to ICEholes. IOW, you're paying ding-a-ring to spy on you. What a fucking racket.

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    • qasimrashid@mastodon.socialQ qasimrashid@mastodon.social

      Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

      They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

      Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

      "We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

      I'm uninstalling my RING today.

      rememberusalways@newsie.socialR This user is from outside of this forum
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      @QasimRashid

      Wow. Not a single racial comparison.

      Bravo. I'm boosting.

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      • qasimrashid@mastodon.socialQ qasimrashid@mastodon.social

        Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

        They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

        Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

        "We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

        I'm uninstalling my RING today.

        bontchev@infosec.exchangeB This user is from outside of this forum
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        @QasimRashid You kept your RING while knowing that it was snitching to the police and decided to uninstall it only now, after you saw a stupid ad?

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        • qasimrashid@mastodon.socialQ qasimrashid@mastodon.social

          Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

          They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

          Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

          "We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

          I'm uninstalling my RING today.

          seda@someone.elses.computerS This user is from outside of this forum
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          @QasimRashid we wrote about what is potentially behind this https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09994

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          • poleguy@mastodon.socialP poleguy@mastodon.social

            @QasimRashid And dog is just coded language that means Mexican, right?

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            @poleguy @QasimRashid

            Interesting take.... Today it could be used with facial recognition to look for illegal immigrants.

            Tomorrow is could be used to hunt for those that refuse to take the mark of the beast. (So they are also illegal.)

            If they had rolled out this technology a few years earlier, they could have used it to hunt for those who still had not taken their clot-shot. But they will get another chance for that with the next virus they release.

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            • qasimrashid@mastodon.socialQ qasimrashid@mastodon.social

              Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

              They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

              Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

              "We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

              I'm uninstalling my RING today.

              netraven@hear-me.socialN This user is from outside of this forum
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              #19

              @QasimRashid I say sabotage against ring doorbells is 'OK' at this point since it could literally save lives.

              Edit: are the rest of the people who replied about you owning a ring or that they don't care, actually real? Did they read what you wrote? I don't think so.

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              • keithpjolley@discuss.systemsK keithpjolley@discuss.systems

                @QasimRashid i did the same math in my head when i saw that ad. i bought a ring camera a long time ago simply wanting an easy way to look at my garden. didn't mean to join the dystopian surveillance state.

                curious if people have a recommendation for an outdoor solar-powered non-dystopian camera?

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                @keithpjolley @QasimRashid if it connects to "the cloud" it's not safe.

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                • qasimrashid@mastodon.socialQ qasimrashid@mastodon.social

                  Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

                  They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

                  Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

                  "We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

                  I'm uninstalling my RING today.

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                  #21

                  @QasimRashid why would you even have one. The police state didnt just show up? Its been like this.

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                  • netraven@hear-me.socialN netraven@hear-me.social

                    @QasimRashid I say sabotage against ring doorbells is 'OK' at this point since it could literally save lives.

                    Edit: are the rest of the people who replied about you owning a ring or that they don't care, actually real? Did they read what you wrote? I don't think so.

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                    #22

                    @QasimRashid If nothing else, people should start a campaign of putting stickers over ring cams... kids like doing that kind of thing.

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                    • bontchev@infosec.exchangeB bontchev@infosec.exchange

                      @QasimRashid You kept your RING while knowing that it was snitching to the police and decided to uninstall it only now, after you saw a stupid ad?

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                      @QasimRashid @bontchev They've been handing data to cops without much constraints for many years now so unfortunately most people who have one were already fine with that. That stuff has been in the national news periodically since early 2019. Amazon bought them in 2018. So pretty much if the device has Amazon branding you can be pretty confident that it was purchased after the whole thing was already known to be a poorly controlled government surveillance network.

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                      • earl@mast.john1126.comE earl@mast.john1126.com

                        @poleguy @QasimRashid

                        Interesting take.... Today it could be used with facial recognition to look for illegal immigrants.

                        Tomorrow is could be used to hunt for those that refuse to take the mark of the beast. (So they are also illegal.)

                        If they had rolled out this technology a few years earlier, they could have used it to hunt for those who still had not taken their clot-shot. But they will get another chance for that with the next virus they release.

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                        @Earl @QasimRashid

                        I said that in jest. But in every joke is some element of truth.

                        "Do not attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance."

                        But maybe also don't attribute to ignorance what can be attributed to greed.

                        I'm not in to conspiracy theories. So I'm not going to bite easily when I hear there is an unnamed "they" that's doing malicious virus releases.

                        I'll stick to blaming ignorance first... then greed...

                        This looks like greed. The data is very valuable... then abuse.

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                        • qasimrashid@mastodon.socialQ qasimrashid@mastodon.social

                          Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

                          They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

                          Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

                          "We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

                          I'm uninstalling my RING today.

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                          @QasimRashid
                          It's a way to say that they believe in innumeracy.

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                          • bontchev@infosec.exchangeB bontchev@infosec.exchange

                            @QasimRashid You kept your RING while knowing that it was snitching to the police and decided to uninstall it only now, after you saw a stupid ad?

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                            @bontchev @QasimRashid That's like chiding someone because they quit smoking. Why did you even start!!!

                            Not factually wrong, but not helpful.

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                            • qasimrashid@mastodon.socialQ qasimrashid@mastodon.social

                              Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

                              They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

                              Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

                              "We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

                              I'm uninstalling my RING today.

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                              @QasimRashid Next feature for those white, middle class neighborhoods: search party, join neighbors across your community to lynch some poor bastard Karen thought was a bit “out of place”.

                              (They already letting ICE use this footage 😡)

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                              • qasimrashid@mastodon.socialQ qasimrashid@mastodon.social

                                Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

                                They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

                                Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

                                "We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

                                I'm uninstalling my RING today.

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                                @QasimRashid it was never about finding pets. It's about finding enemies of the state.

                                And for those who think this is overly harsh or paranoid, please take a moment to read up on fascism.

                                #USpol

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                                • n1xnx@tilde.zoneN n1xnx@tilde.zone

                                  @QasimRashid
                                  Way ahead of you there. I've never installed, nor would ever consider, a Ring, Alexa, Siri, or other spy device, especially one connected to an evil megacorporation.

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                                  @n1xnx @QasimRashid I finally convinced my partner to switch off Siri. He jokingly shouted “hey Siri!” to prove it was off, and an old iPad he was using to track his darts score answered from across the room. Like, FFS!🤦🏻‍♀️

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                                  • keithpjolley@discuss.systemsK keithpjolley@discuss.systems

                                    @QasimRashid i did the same math in my head when i saw that ad. i bought a ring camera a long time ago simply wanting an easy way to look at my garden. didn't mean to join the dystopian surveillance state.

                                    curious if people have a recommendation for an outdoor solar-powered non-dystopian camera?

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                                    @QasimRashid @keithpjolley Reolink has cameras that do not require a cloud connection.

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                                    • qasimrashid@mastodon.socialQ qasimrashid@mastodon.social

                                      Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

                                      They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

                                      Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

                                      "We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

                                      I'm uninstalling my RING today.

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                                      @QasimRashid

                                      I'm uninstalling my RING today.

                                      Better late than never I guess...

                                      Consider doing some #Camover in your hood to #UndoHarmCaused whilst at it...

                                      #sarcasm #commentary #NotLegalAdvice

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