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Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? (www.usatoday.com)
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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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[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

the problem with these fucking things is that you can't really opt out. even if you don't buy your own, some neighbours will happily buy and install the big brother to watch you from their porch and there is very little you can do about it.

same as you can't really escape the google, even if you don't use single one of their service, there is always the other part to any communication you are having...

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Exactly. I never used Gemini or gave sensitive information/photos to major AI companies, but my family has, including photos of me.

[–] Pupscent@lemmy.ca 5 points 48 minutes ago

I've never had a Facebook account. I've always hated when people posted pictures I was in and said who I was.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

IR LEDs don't work on these like with some CCTV cameras, right?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago

At close range they'll blind them, but the tech is getting better these days.

What knocks out the camera is the auto exposure, they used to just take the whole sensors input, average it and set the brightness against that value. A lot of the newer surveillance cameras will just ignore the overall and compensate pixel per pixel.

Project farm looked at a bunch

https://youtu.be/j0GZKXWf3vg?t=749