Now doorbell cams are destroying America or something

Hot Air.com ^ | July 19, 2019 | JAZZ SHAW

[livius]

I have Ring and I like it. We’ve had a lot of porch pirates and even break-ins in my nabe recently, probably because of an uptick in the “homeless” and the fact that school’s out.

This is not “racial,” and the only people who think it is are professors who racists themselves, because they always assume that any criminal is going to be black. Not true, most of ours are white.

[KosmicKitty]

RING had a security flaw discovered in 2017. Seems that it would sometimes send video to an IP areas is China.

Just saying.

[Cecily]

We tried the low tech way, but nobody ever believed Gladys Kravitz without photographs or film.

[\/\/ayne]

Video: Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap

[fruser1]

“It’s the people who are operating it.”

Sorta the point.

A massive surveillance system run by a benevolent US almost turned over an election when used by communist sympathizers embedded in the government.

Catch terrorists? Sure. Keep your political adversary (Trump) from getting in office? Not so nice.

The cameras capture imagery beyond your doorstep. Where traffic cameras end, bell cams begin.

[Jim Noble]

turn neighborhoods into places of constant surveillance and create suspicion that falls heavier on minorities

And why would that be?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Your ring only sees what it want’s you to see. It’s always transmitting all the time.

Secondly, you had to open a port on your router so you can see the door camera when you are a way.

Have you even looked to see what kind of activity your camera is transmitting?

[moovova]

We live in a mixed neighborhood.

[yesthatjallen]

It seems easy to defeat.

All you have to do is walk up to the door with your hand held-up blocking your face and then cover the camera with a piece of tape, dirt, paint, etc.

Secondary cameras, especially hidden, should be used as well.

[Vaquero]

No Dave…please stop Dave…Daisy

[dfwgator]

Critics also say Ring, a subsidiary of Amazon, appears to be marketing its cameras by stirring up fear of crime at a time when it’s decreasing. Amazon’s promotional videos show people lurking around homes, and the company recently posted a job opening for a managing news editor to “deliver breaking crime news alerts to our neighbors.”

In every home security ad, the perps are always white.

[Ted Grant]

How many of these cameras caught some strange guy going into the house for a couple of hour siesta with the wife? These things bust up marriages!

[willk]

Libs feel it is unfair to criminals.

[gunsequalfreedom]

An article on CBS implied the cameras are racist.

"Critics complain that the systems turn neighborhoods into places of constant surveillance and create suspicion that falls heavier on minorities. "

Anyone have any idea how a door camera is racist?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doorbell-cams-raise-privacy-fears-and-concerns-about-bias/

[Texas resident]

My Ring doorbell is white. Therefore...racist.

[Cowboy Bob]

Critics also say Ring, a subsidiary of Amazon, appears to be marketing its cameras by stirring up fear of crime at a time when it’s decreasing. Amazon’s promotional videos show people lurking around homes, and the company recently posted a job opening for a managing news editor to “deliver breaking crime news alerts to our neighbors.”

Not a problem. Just make sure all the criminals in the commercials are White, as is usually done.

[Kozak]

Gotta laugh. Watch a commercial for any of the security companies or video doorbell companies. NONE of the criminals are black or latino. Always a big white guy.

Then there’s the reality of crime in the US....

[usconservative]

Critics complain that the systems turn neighborhoods into places of constant surveillance and create suspicion that falls heavier on minorities.

Some people choose to see racism in everything.

[DannyTN]

If this keeps up, criminals are going to go out of business.