Amazon to turn surveillance footage into entertainment

[therearewords]

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.

[owl_get_you]

Anyway this is how I found out Wanda Sykes used to work for the NSA

[celja]

I like the ones where cute bugs ring the doorbell. Otherwise this seems very morally tricky. How hard are they actually gonna work to find people who show up on the footage to get their permission?

[new_peteland]

This is probably the least egregious thing happening with your ring data, but also gross

[xtinkerbellax]

Ring already has a youtube channel that is heavily pushed bc unless I accidentally clicked on one of their videos once, I don't watch them but they still show up regularly on my homepage so not surprised.