No way! It seemed so authentic when they said they’d search for dogs.

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.

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.

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.

I have to say, it's nice that they got called out on this immediately for a change.

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.

Ancient book of Arabic numerals reveals 2 comes after 1.

What if your kid runs off? Your elderly mother wondered off? A break in was reported down the road? What if all non whites are labeled terrorist? We need to watch you 24/7. Obey

Yeah, we all saw that coming and it's exactly why everyone's freaking out about it.

Lol fucking duh

It's about dogs and crime. Sure.

Off the record, Siminoff could be heard saying "Dogs today, blacks tomorrow and people later."^[Citation needed]

c/noshitsherlock

Breaking news: Fire is hot.

FYI -

• Ring and Alexa are Amazon
• Nest is Google

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.

*

Boycott ring

fuckin'… they were expanding into dogs to distract from what the system was really for

Wait… what?!

They mean to cats too, right?!?

No shit Sherlock

Y’all just need to think about the shareholders.

Oh, thank god, I was worried if there might not be a worldwide surveillance dragnet for in case I lost a pet iguana.

Fucking scumbags.

😱

CREEE PEEEE!

Anyone remember "Police Blotter" reports in local papers? Some were funny.

Someone called in with concerns about a neighborhood cat that is "continuously at large."

But they mostly gave people a very dark view of the world outside. This led to metal bars on doors and windows, sale of pricey security systems, and folks walking around scared of their shadow. That all moved over to apps like NextDoor, Citizen, and Ring's Neighbors.

Fear is a primal driver. People on those apps are constantly reporting "odd looking people" in their neighborhood. Not surprisingly, the pet "Search Party" feature goes through Neighbors. Those same users are primed to see bad people everywhere. They will happily accept any feature that promises "zero crime neighborhoods."

ANY feature.

I'm.... flabbergasted. Unbelievable. Who would've thought?