Amazon unveiled a new tracking system at a time when Americans are debating the value of persistent surveillance.

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.

  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    22 hours ago

    yes, that would be ideal, but at any point in time we will have newcomers, for them it won’t be obvious

    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      11·
      20 hours ago

      Your prior comment was for newcomers?

      "How is it encrypted, with what algorithm? was the alg implemented securely? who has the decryption keys? how were the keys generated? were they generated from a good enough entropy source? "

      This was obviously written for people with quite a bit of knowledge. Most newcomers would have absolutely no idea what any of it means.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Your prior comment was for newcomers?

        no, it was for everyone.

        This was obviously written for people with quite a bit of knowledge. Most newcomers would have absolutely no idea what any of it means.

        the point was not to explain how encryption works, but to paint a picture about how many details matter a lot, so that the reader can know that just some kind of “encryption” does not mean much