Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a heartfelt effort to reunite the lost dogs of the country with their innocent owners, the company...
It is never a good idea to trust corporations with anything if it can be avoided. Almost by definition corporations put profit above all else, and many are perfectly willing to engage in blatantly illegal actions if it’s profitable.
Amazon being trusted with video footage from inside and outside of people’s homes was bound to lead to a surveillance nightmare at some point.