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Big Brother just got an upgrade.

Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored, tagged, & analyzed without consent.

One step closer to total surveillance.

[Image: A Ring doorbell camera mounted on a brick wall. A digital overlay shows facial recognition scanning a person's face with grid lines. Text on the right reads "Amazon's Ring Adds Facial Recognition to Home Security" with additional text below.]

6:00 PM | Oct 4, 2025

Source: https://x.com/JasonBassler1/status/1974640686419857516

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[–] ericatty@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, except if he knew everyone that entered the apartment at any time was recorded, it would maybe have been a deterrent.

Her other option could be a hidden nanny cam trained on the door so she'd have proof she wasn't crazy.

But again the issue isn't people wanting to know who is outside their door, or entering without their knowledge. The issue is the camera companies keeping all the footage for themselves.

We have an off brand camera aimed at our porch for porch pirates. It's not going to get someone walking by on the street. We have it only recording to the sdcard.

But we can live view and it alerts through the app. We don't use the cloud service or AI. But there's nothing stopping the app from screenshotting alerts and sending them somewhere.

I'm trying to figure out how to have an actual closed system so only computers under my control can access camera(s)