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Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... (lemmy.world)
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Jason Bassler | @JasonBassler1

Big Brother just got an upgrade.

Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored, tagged, & analyzed without consent.

One step closer to total surveillance.

[Image: A Ring doorbell camera mounted on a brick wall. A digital overlay shows facial recognition scanning a person's face with grid lines. Text on the right reads "Amazon's Ring Adds Facial Recognition to Home Security" with additional text below.]

6:00 PM | Oct 4, 2025

Source: https://x.com/JasonBassler1/status/1974640686419857516

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago

Before GDPR came, we had PUL, PersonUppgiftsLagen, The Law of Personal Information.

It was stricter than GDPR is now.

[-] Enkrod@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

Why wasn't PUL kept? EU-countries can have laws that are stricter than EU laws, they just need to be at least as strict as the corresponding EU law.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

It was replaced by GDPR, probably to make it easier to conform to just one set of laws.

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