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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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[-] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 months ago

Can't we make necklaces of intense IR radiation that block out our faces? Or does that not work anymore?

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

A balaklava and a can of spray paint would be cheaper and more effective.

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 8 points 6 months ago

Luckily I live somewhere where they will have to hide it

[-] DNS@discuss.online 8 points 6 months ago

I really don't care what Amazon does with Ring's facial recognition. The populace doesnt give a fuck and trust me, I tried to give a damn but its like going up against a tide of stupidity that keeps smashing. No one bats an eye with Costco/WalMart/Target facial recognition software, let alone caring enough how companies like Apple sell your data or manipulate your wants/needs down to the pervasive marketing tactics that are threading the line of psyops.

Idiocracy came a lot sooner than expected and there is no closing that Pandora's box. I still try to refrain from and mask my digital footprint, but sadly with how how easily our data is passed around like a ladyboy aboard a navy ship, we're doomed

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 6 months ago

target is a given, they probably had it for a decade+ to catch shoplifters who hit multiple stores.

[-] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure this will be illegal in Illinois too

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[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago

The problem is Amazon has this. I don lt care if my neighbors do this. But random corporations should not be involved.

[-] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

Maybe we should bring back covid masks as a privacy/fashion statement now?

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