Prior to ring, folks would get cameras hard wired into their house for cctv. More expensive but at least the videos don’t leave your home network unless you want it to. Insane amount of surveillance footage is constantly streamed to a central server with ring.
Gonna be like scarface with a row of small TVs in my office just for surveilling my lawn
read surveillance valley by yasha levine
the internet was created by the military industrial complex as a surveillance tool, and the government subsidized it into existence. Once it was privatized for consumer use it was bound to end up this way. The lack of a socialist internet is one of the many tragedies of the late 20th century. :allende-rhetoric:
This is actually one of the things China and the US do have in common, in terms of the surveillance state. Are the anarchists right on this one? Is it different because the surveillance state in China--at least in theory--serves the interests of the people, rather than capital?
Regardless, what this article describes is definitely gross.
Yeah, China in general has pretty strange attitudes toward privacy, which I think is partly because they are a lot happier with their government and their influence on it. Also, I was at a work event regarding dataprotection law, and somehow every single fucking speaker started out their presentation of why privacy is important, by bringing up the social credit system. Felt kinda blackpilled after seeing everyone and their mother make the 1984-comparison as if it was something deep / meaningful.
The furor led to the bizarre sight of the NSA head as a keynote speaker at the Black Hat security conference and the shuttering of the program. We all slept easier knowing that one less organization was listening to our phone calls.
lol is this a straight up lie? The idea that they "shuttered the program" is hilarious.
The standard operating procedure if a classified program gets exposed is to "shutter the program", then restart it with a different name.
And then every single "journalist" remains willfully oblivious that this happens 😑
Well, you see, technically they can't prove that the program was restarted, so it would be "irresponsible journalism" to note that it almost definitely was. :side-eye-1:
