If you are in the US and have an Amazon Ring camera, disconnect it.

Julian Oliver

If you are in the US and have an Amazon Ring camera, disconnect it. The camera may be being used by ICE, by way of its participation in a Flock AI surveillance network.

Or sure, smash if it feels better.

Activists Say Ring Cameras Are Being Used by ICE

Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.

Futurism (futurism.com)

ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras

Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevitable” and Flock “is unable and uninterested in preventing them.”

404 Media (www.404media.co)

contrasocial

@JulianOliver

I don't have a security system, but I have a friend who uses Axis brand cameras along with Blue Iris software, as they aren't controlled by a mega-corp nor by China.

If you can run your own local instance on an old desktop or something it's probably the best way to avoid getting creeped on by governments and corporations.

Solitha

@JulianOliver I'd be tempted to just block its view with a sign, something along the lines of "Fuck ICE and fuck the surveillance state."

Julian Oliver

@solitha Good idea. Depending on how you can fix it, could use a technique like this, but opaque. https://julianoliver.com/projects/public-patch/

NA

@JulianOliver Who would have thought a webcam connected to Amazon 24/7 would be unsecure? Y'all had to have known this would happen sooner or later right? REICH?

J.now 🇨🇦

@JulianOliver

I live in
We took ours out as soon as we saw #Amazon was doing this in the US.

Remove your Ring Doorbell or better yet stop using Amazon & all their products

#cdnpoli #uspoli

Snake Oil Salesman

@JulianOliver glad we're all waking up to this surveillance bs.

LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

@JulianOliver It's enough to put some tape over the camera - you can still use the audio bit.

jesterchen42

@JulianOliver Uhm... does this only count for ring cameras in the US, or are e.g. european rings ... "affected" as well (and taken into hugr databases)?

Oh, I feel I know the answer, but perhaps there is hope anyways............

Can the GDPR make these things illegal in Europe? 🥺

Spirit

@JulianOliver Setting up a network of Ring cameras that only stream the nastiest porn imaginable, GPS spoofed to areas of highest immigration enforcement.

Bowreality 🇨🇦

@JulianOliver Burn it

Auntie Mame

@JulianOliver Exactly why I opted for a closed-circuit system last year.

Mike Smale

@JulianOliver Amazon is the latest company from which I've pulled my music.

Julian Oliver

In the leadup to & throughout WW2, US tech giant IBM chose to be the "information muscle" of the Nazi Party, running census & kill accounting for Hitler's Final Solution.

As this shitty loop comes round at scale, tech giants once again center themselves within the white supremacy project. Rather than combine their power to fight back, the CEOs & investors of these corps *choose* to side with the hateful & increasingly lethal regime.

Helping friends & fam off #bigtech is a moral imperative.

VHG 🇪🇺🇺🇦

@JulianOliver #uspol #uspolitics cancel Amazon, boycott Amazon .. make them feel it

Bimbo

@JulianOliver ibm is doing the same job they did before but for Israel now.

cognitively accessible math

@JulianOliver or point it at the cat box?

Wandering Adventure Party

If you are in the US and have an Amazon Ring camera, disconnect it.