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I have to say, it's nice that they got called out on this immediately for a change.
Ancient book of Arabic numerals reveals 2 comes after 1.
Breaking news: Fire is hot.
Ok guys, hear me out.
I need you to buy these cameras and put them on your face.
We will record your video for you and keep it safe for you and never give your data to anybody and we'll do all of this for free.
We'll also give you all of the software and setup all of the servers for you. Don't you worry your silly head about needing to learn anything about how to use technology, just give us your life-long dependence as we'll take care of everything. Also, AI.*
Also, you will help save puppies and children and you are on the side of puppies and children, right? This is a great deal! You can stop reading here, just click the button to agree... for the puppies.
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You also grant to us full, exclusive, worldwide, in perpetuity, until the sun falls the rights to use your likeness, words, thoughts, essence, and produces in any manner that we, in our sole discretion, see fit and you also agree to submit to binding arbitration for any disputes
In exchange, We will never give away your data. But we will ruthlessly exploit OUR licensed copy of your data to sell to anybody who can do a wire transfer.
It's about dogs and crime. Sure.
fuckin'… they were expanding into dogs to distract from what the system was really for
I never even heard of it before the superb owl ad. I couldn't believe how dirty it was to tug at our heartstrings to make us pay them to spy on us.
What the fuck, America?
Wait till you learn about flock cameras and the raven sound detection
Is that the one listening out for gunshots? I don't necessarily have a problem with that unless it's listening in on conversations or something. But that would be a pretty good mic.
always assume the equipment of our open air prison panopticon is more capable than they admit, but also never let them stop you from speaking truth
No its only for listening for lost dog barks. /s
Hell, they were saying it was for dogs so stupid people would get their heart strings pulled and blindly sign up.
No shit Sherlock
Y’all just need to think about the shareholders.
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No way! It seemed so authentic when they said they’d search for dogs.
Imagine how evil you have to be to use dogs to sell mass surveillance.
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you.
Ok… I’m not shocked at all.
Imagine spending millions on an ad to alert people to your evil scheme.
Proof that you don’t have to be smart to be rich and powerful.
It shows you how insular these people must be. That ad was the result of meeting after meeting, plan after plan. They had convinced themselves that the public would eat it up. We would be like "Holy shit that's amazing, let's give you ALL our data and video and privacy!". They actually thought we would go for it. lol.
To be fair, I'm actually pleasantly surprised that people didn't go for it.
It's not like majority of people seemed to give a shit about privacy not too long ago...
Same.
I was sure the emotional manipulation tactic would be extremely effective. Guess it was a little too blatant, even for the general public.
My 12 year old was sold on the idea. But she's 12 and may love dogs more than people.
The proof for that is abundant.
No kidding? Next thing you will be telling us that chatcontrol and age checks on the internet will be used for more than just protecting kids from pedophiles and be extended to crushing dissent and opposition and democracy itself, and building social scores on us with all information including these cameras that will be used secretly against us in a way we cannot know or challenge to determine our jobs, background checks, police scrutiny, how courts and government treats you, how business treats you, the prices you are offered online and in digital price tag stores (coming soon,) and even what search results you are shown. All calculated by the antichrist's company, for said pedophile or pedophile adjacent politicians deciding which of us are undesirable, and given a way to slip names of people into the bad score list themselves, always a selling perk under the table to leaders.
It's always just a trojan horse to get in the walls. It will never end with finding pets, with stopping child abuse, what have you. They find the instance that no one can disagree with then accuse people of helping child abusers, maybe you are a child abuser yourself! It's not subtle. All done by people that are mostly on the epstein's redacted and unreleased pages for actually fucking children.
Dont forget claims they also ate children.
You know.. here's the thing..
Years ago, I'd be on Reddit and reading the usual rants and raves about the government, and how the public should be wary of it and we are heading into a security state.. and I always positied that the real threat actors WRT privacy and security were going to be companies like facebook and google and the businesses that made internet-connected devices.
Compared to them, as far as data colleciton and surveillance of people - the government was filled with rank amateurs.
I'd consistently get downvoted or pooh-poohed for being "naive."
God fucking dammit.. on this.. I am absolutely pissed off that I was calling this one - and have been - for over a decade.
FML, I hate this SOOOOOO much.
edward snowden pretty much spilled the beans on government mass surveillance many years ago, but most people just said "meh...whatever"
The whole "find lost dogs" thing was likely the result of a single meeting with the agenda item "how do we sell this thing we are already doing as anything other than mass surveillance for state actors?" They probably ended it early.
And in other breaking news: the sky is blue, tree pretty, and fire hot.
Why anyone would have non-locally hosted video surveillance in and around their home is beyond me.
You're basically begging corporations/governments to spy on you.
Between Ring and Jeffrey Epstein, it's surprising how explicit criminals are about their criminal intentions.
They lied?!
No shit
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
Yeah, we all saw that coming and it's exactly why everyone's freaking out about it.
