Amazon to turn surveillance footage into entertainment

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Amazon is putting surveillance footage captured by its Ring cameras toward a new TV show, demonstrating the economywide reach of one of America's most powerful companies. https://t.co/QyifiuojKN
- CBS News (@CBSNews) August 13, 2022
- Hollywood studio MGM, which Amazon bought this year, will use footage from Ring, which Amazon bought in 2018, to

Comments

[wonky]

My neighborhood is loaded full of these things and I would not at all appreciate showing up on something like this. People are way too comfortable with constant surveillance and sharing footage of strangers.

[cleanofslate]

yeah, i have a ring spotlight to cover our cars and i would never. my mom is obsessed with using it to see what's happening outside like she doesn't want to miss a car driving by. after the night a spider web kept tripping up my notifications every five minutes, it lost its novelty for me.

[lreservoirldogs]

Im sorry but a spider web tripping the notifications made me lol. I didnt think it was that sensitive.

[cleanofslate]

lol the spider laid its web right in front of the camera so as the wind moved it, my mom's phone downstairs kept chiming. at 11 at night. she was in bed without her hearing aids and couldn't hear it so i logged into ring and disabled it for 8 hours lmao.

[green_monsterx]

they actually are surprisingly senstive, i had to turn my notifications off. it would notify me bc the sun moved and the shadow on the ground changed lol

[manu19]

I am glad this is illegal here in Germany. Your camera is only allowed to show your own property, not one bit of the public area

[celians]

I wouldn't like that either. The text does indicate "Ring Nation secures permissions for each video from the owner AND anyone identifiable in the video", in which case such a situation wouldn't happen, but who knows how carefully they are going about the vetting process.