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[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 58 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Countries with extensive cctv networks still have lots of crime, almost like surveillance is the wrong answer to lowering crime or something

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a good answer if you want to watch all the crime that's still happening

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Until police selectively disables some cameras whenever it goes outside.

[–] shiftymccool@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago

It's a good answer if your goal isn't actually to lower crime but you say it is so you can add buttloads of surveillance for data gathering

[–] philophilsaurus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly if we want crime to go down we should just stop reporting it.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

How much good did it make in all these years before tv?

[–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 52 points 3 weeks ago

Here we go with this 1984-nonsense

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Obvious spyware grift is obvious.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 3 weeks ago

It's owned by Amazon. A no brainer to avoid, really

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 3 weeks ago

I HATE IT HERE

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 weeks ago

This just in, Ring's CEO admits to being a complete idiot. Look at the cameras in the UK. Mass surveillance does not stop crime.

[–] 001Guy001@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 weeks ago

Oh that's awesome I didn't realize cameras are able to create a system where the basic necessities of life aren't locked down by money, where people aren't being disenfranchised/marginalized/exploited and not having to fend out for themselves figuring out any way to survive but instead working together to answer everybody's needs

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 weeks ago

Hey, how about zeroing out wage theft?

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 weeks ago

This guy can get fucked

[–] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago

Lol. GTFO here ya clown. Anyone that lives in a big city knows that cameras don't stop crimes. Tweekers, dirty cops, politicians... none of em give a shit if they're on camera.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago
[–] MrSilkworm@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

The only thing it will do is to further reduce our privacy and expose our data to big corpos

[–] rauls5@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago

We are just so fucked from every angle, from this to Teams reporting everything you do to the man to everything else.

[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'm just starting reading the book The Circle and I just got to the post where they announced the same thing.

[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago
[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A famous criminal lawyer in Australia told me that CCTV is a bluff. The perpetrator merely needs to deny it is them.

My friend employed an expert witness to perform computerized facial pattern recognition but the other party got their own "expert" to counter it.

[–] Zoma@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

If you're in the UK could you get prosecuted for saying something "grossly offensive" around one of those ring door bells?

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

He's full of shit

[–] SitD@lemy.lol 2 points 3 weeks ago

this man's face looks like about to emit a nasal laughter while he plugs a ring camera into a UPS, singlehandedly putting humanity's most secured military zones to shame

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ring doorbell is watching you.