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Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? (www.usatoday.com)
submitted 5 hours ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A Super Bowl ad for Ring security cameras boasting how the company can scan neighborhoods for missing dogs has prompted some customers to remove or even destroy their cameras.

Online, videos of people removing or destroying their Ring cameras have gone viral. One video posted by Seattle-based artist Maggie Butler shows her pulling off her porch-facing camera and flipping it the middle finger.

Butler explained that she originally bought the camera to protect against package thefts, but decided the pet-tracking system raised too many concerns about government access to data.

"They aren't just tracking lost dogs, they're tracking you and your neighbors," Butler said in the video that has more than 3.2 million views.

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[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

My wife and I recently moved to a home with ring cameras preinstalled, but no subscription of course. We can only access a live feed via the cloud service. I told my wife, I don’t think it matters whether we have a subscription or not… if they want to use the footage from our home cameras for any reason at all, it’s in their power to do so. They can save it, scan it, watch it, … they don’t even need to save the video, they can save results from a scan to get out the important details more efficiently.

My wife didn’t want to hear it. She said we aren’t paying them, so there’s nothing they can do. Then this news story dropped about Google Nest. I showed my wife. We no longer have the ring cameras.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder if removing the cameras is the best move.

It might be better to let them run but have them watching a TV streaming Disney movies.

Then drop the dime to Disney that they are copying their IP.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Copyright theft is only an issue for the poor.

Have you been in a cave where AI doesn't exist, or....?

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I’m half curious if I cut open the box… you think there’d be an easy way to replace the camera with a video stream of my choosing? Because I wouldn’t mind cutting out the camera and leaving the device plugged into my PC for a constant headless stream of video content.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Print out a image of your asshole, though I suppose it could be anyone's, and tape it to the front of the camera, then poke a needle through the microphone.

Or you know... Just unplug it.