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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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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Reading the ring press release, I have to admit the features look useful. I wouldn’t mind a better way to know whether it’s someone I care about before I bother checking. Most unexpected doorbell ringers are solicitors that I don’t want to waste time with

They’re also coming out in December and there is not yet a way to disable that feature for privacy.

For those who care about their own privacy walking down the street …. Unless houses are very tight to the street, you should be more concerned with the higher resolution models also being released. We did have an incident where police asked me if I would check the camera and not only could I not identify the person, it was hard to tell they were a person (the idiots said “oh that was us, based on jacket color”) but my point is that with the limited resolution of current cameras, no one is identifying you unless you get pretty close. And it’s much worse at night. The new high resolution models may change that

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[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Awesome. Theres a couple right across the road from me with one of those things. Bet they dont take it down... cunts.

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My face is in all the databases, sadly.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

if meta, google can do it, why cant amazon.

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