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>> developing a seamless process for government agents to request footage > Can someone verify this? Because I was under the impression that customers had to o
by laughinghan 7y ago
>> developing a seamless process for government agents to request footage
> Can someone verify this? Because I was under the impression that customers had to opt in.
Opt-in to what? Opt-in to fulfilling the request, or opt-in to receiving the request? It appears to be the former, not the latter: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kga3/amazon-is-coaching-cops-on-how-to-obtain-surveillance-footage-without-a-warrant https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kga3/amazon-is-coaching...
> They aren't capturing anything that isn't readily available.
In 1984, Big Brother monitors both public and private spaces, but in V for Vendetta I believe the roving vans and stuff only monitor public spaces. Am I interpreting you correctly that scenario like V for Vendetta but with CCTV, where the government monitors everyone's public movements and interactions at all times, you would fail to see anything wrong with?
- bart_spoon 7y agoI'm saying I'm skeptical of doorbell cameras leading to a V for Vendetta like fascist state, the same way I'm skeptical of machine learning applications leading to Skynet. I'm saying that the "techno-literate" crowd likes to see themselves as informed and skeptical, and yet they show a willingness to wholeheartedly believe in the dystopic futures of science-fiction and comic books the same way cultists see signs of the apocalypse in news reports. There are reasons to worry about incursions into our privacy by corporations and the government. I'm not convinced Ring doorbells qualify.