🗞️ Privacy tips, tools & technologies

🧵 Ring is rolling out “Familiar Faces” facial recognition to its doorbells/cams—letting owners tag people—while critics warn it normalizes scanning anyone who passes by.

🔍 Analysis: This extends a privatized, neighborhood-scale surveillance mesh: consumer devices harvest biometrics for a Big Tech database that historically interfaces with police channels—aligning profit (data/locks-in) with state convenience (frictionless visibility). The network effect, once embedded in suburbs and apartments, becomes hard to unwind.

🔍 What could you do: Don’t enable face-tagging; turn on end-to-end encryption, trim audio/motion zones to your property, avoid pointing at public space, self-host where possible, and push local councils for biometric bans/opt-out rights.

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