Jason Bassler | @JasonBassler1

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

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      9 days ago

      Nah, Project Farm tested a bunch of doorbells out, most of them still worked surprisingly well even with a flashlight pointed directly at them in the dark.

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      9 days ago

      I was discussing this on another post, of using a 5w invisible laser to burn sensors, with auto focal point distance sensor + ai camera detection, to render them useless but there is a ton of dangers to doing this.

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      8 days ago

      This is what I want. To be able to put on a hat and sunglasses and have it obscure me.

      Oh!!! Or suits like in A Scanner Darkly!!!

      Not for nefarious reasons, I’m pretty boring. It’s the principle of the thing.