🗞️ Privacy tips, tools & technologies

🧵 Amazon-owned Ring is adding “Familiar Faces” facial recognition to doorbells/cams, letting users tag people who pass by.

🔍 What can you do?: A private surveillance grid scales via doorsteps and cloud contracts—consumer convenience feeds biometric datasets that dovetail with law enforcement requests and platform lock-in, collapsing public/private boundaries of watchfulness.

🧍‍♀️ What could you do? Disable face-tagging, tighten motion zones to your property, enable end-to-end encryption, block cloud sharing where possible, and push your city to restrict facial recognition in residential areas.

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