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    Helping Big Brother

    Did you know about this side of Ring? Ring (which is part of Amazon who also owns Alexa devices that can communicate with Ring) encourages neighborhoods to work together with local law enforcement using their cameras to make everyone safer. Videos recorded by the Ring cameras are sent to a huge database for safekeeping.

    Michael Larkin joined his neighborhood watch and one day was asked to by police to review his video to help them with a drug investigation of one of his neighbors. He spent a lot of time looking into it and noted a suspicious car showing up more than you'd expect. He provided the video to the police. The police requested more and more but he started to balk due to the amount of (unpaid) time it was taking to do all this. So the police convinced a judge to sign a search warrant for ALL of his Ring cameras--not just the one facing the street but those inside his house and at his place of business at a different location. And they don't give the warrant to Mr Larkin, they go straight to Ring to have them turn over all of the footage.

    They don't need a wiretapping warrant anymore to spy on people. They just let us do it ourselves and then find some back door method of getting the video. Crazy.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...rbell-00084979

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    Ain’t got one ain’t getting one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yatesville88fan View Post
    Ain’t got one ain’t getting one.
    Doesn't really matter if your neighbors have them. That technology cuts both ways so you have to take the good with the bad or don't partake at all.

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    There is always fine print
    All sheep are eventually led to slaughter

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    I'm from the guberment and I'm here to help. Trust me.

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    I knew this. Not a surprise.
    GETFISHED !!!

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    I hate all the cameras everywhere, creeps me out. Dash cams, ring cams, everyone on their cell cam, drones, traffic cams, it’s endless and scary.
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    Should we be more careful about what tree we pee next to?

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    thats why you use a private camera system that's not dependant on the cloud

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    There are a lot of citizens out there that are so out there, they're blind. ( If you know what I mean)

    I do as little as possible with technology.
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    I have a chinese spy robot that has mapped my house. Also vacuums it for us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bassnpro1 View Post
    I have a chinese spy robot that has mapped my house. Also vacuums it for us.
    Yeah, it's already sent the layout to Chinses Special Ops. They'll be coming after your fishing gear in the middle of the night

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    1984 is here and we soon will be a one party system of government.

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    I'm selling tin foil hats this weekend. taking orders now!!

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    I would never have a camera inside my house

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    Quote Originally Posted by Triton19x2 View Post
    I would never have a camera inside my house
    Not an issue if not networked to cloud or similar. You have a smart phone or PC with cameras on them.

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    They may catch me peeing outside at the lakehouse or other gross things.

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    In communist Russia they just use people for that. 1informant to 5 homes is the # I heard from a defector. But I don’t think this is out of question. I’m not to good to vacuum or pay someone with a heartbeat to do it

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    Quote Originally Posted by geodebasser View Post
    1984 is here and we soon will be a one party system of government.
    There is only one thing stopping that from happening at the moment and they are doing everything they can to take that capability from us.

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    There is absolutely NO privacy in this world. You are ALWAYS being recorded and you may have to ACCOUNT for it at ANY time.
    Last edited by GPtimes2; 04-01-2023 at 04:41 AM.

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