this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
385 points (98.0% liked)
Technology
80978 readers
4695 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Yes and a lot of people cheered. My wife was impressed until I told her what it was actually going to be used for. Like yeah, I'm sure they will also use it to help little girls find lost dogs, but its true purpose is to help law enforcement find brown people.
It's kind of telling, they can't get cameras on every street corner like the UK, so they just get homeowners (and some renters, I know they have a clip-on installation method) to supply the cameras AND pay a monthly fee for them! Like why is the government not funding this, since they'll be using it? Because so many people are just willing to pay.
Worth noting, Apple did it first, with the Find My network. If you say a device you own is missing, your iPhone sends a signal, anonymously, to the Find My network, which includes every connected Apple device. You can't opt yours out. So once an Apple device finds the "lost" device, it pings the device's last known location. It never identifies people on the network (or so they say). So if you have Apple stuff, you're part of this whether you want to be or not. And nothing malicious has ever been proven. But it is kinda sus, and it's kind of the model Ring seems to be going with.