Get the latest tech news
Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras?
Do we really want to introduce quite so much surveillance into our domestic lives?
It’s a rare home that hasn’t invited in an Alexa, or set their family’s phones to be tracked on small cartoon maps, or rigged up a doorbell camera over the front garden, despite a number of cases of, for instance, hackers peering into children’s bedrooms, and police asking for videos of neighbours, and Max Eliaser, an Amazon software engineer, saying Ring is “simply not compatible with a free society”. It seems that until recently, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has been boosting his government’s attempt to build an increasingly invasive surveillance state, a task that, judging by his ringside seat at Trump’s inauguration, appears almost complete. These pricks of paranoid light that watch them as they walk home, that broadcast a darkened street to their family’s phones, that make the world seem suspicious and full of dread simply by capturing a night scene through a fisheye lens, what impact does it have on their understanding of equality, or safety, or identity, or youth?
Or read this on r/technology
