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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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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (4 children)
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[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

the few that do this are the smart ones. I fear the ignorant/dumb wont follow when this story eventually dies

[–] rauls5@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 hours ago

Switched to Logitech a while back. Uses iCloud encrypted storage.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 3 hours ago

I can confirm, people are destroying their cameras. Dozens of them!

[–] YaksDC@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

I mean it is even a major plot point of Weapons.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world -5 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

Question is why they bought a Ring camera in the first place?
There is no way they can have been unaware that these gadgets can be accessed from outside.
But it was only when the evidence was put right in their face they finally connected the dots?

So my answer is quite simple: Because they are stupid, and bought a sleazy product from a known sleazy company, and when they found out it was in fact as sleazy as could be expected, they figured that maybe they didn't want to to be voluntarily surveilled anyway.

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