Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/26/salesforce-policeforce.html
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PD motto: “To Protect and to Serve Ads”
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I suppose the police recommending you buy a camera is marginally better than their traditional response to package theft, which is to point at you and laugh.
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Who could have foreseen this?
Oh yeah, pretty much anybody who took a moment to consider the implications of putting a networked camera on their door…
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So now Lex Luthor has his own commercial poiice. Combine that with the modern cell phone and you get … BIG BROTHER. Nothing to see here. Go about your business. We run the world now, so hurry up and use your Prime.
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Huh, I did think it was weird that my city advertised a big discount on Ring cameras. There was no mention of law enforcement or networking the cameras. My city has a history of corruption when it comes to contractors lining pockets of mayor’s to get the city to buy product. Red light cameras were installed and ripped out within a year after a scandal broke.
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And my son wonders why I don’t have an Echo, Alexa, Ring, Siri, etc., etc…
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When cops are turned into a sales force, you know shit is fucked up. Next time a cop tries to push a product on me, I think I’ll act interested but insist on some other brand that they don’t mention. I’ll even offer to have him/her come down to the local Best Buy so we can compare options together. See where that goes.
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Phrasing?
This headline almost sounds like a polite door-to-door meet and great with your local police officer. Because it’s a surveillance camera doorbell, you’d be left with a pleasant picture to remember them by too. And as to why Amazon would want that, it’s anybody’s guess.
ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!
Im so sick of this s*$t, fuck both Amazon and the police
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Given that sales people can be pushy assholes even without de-facto immunity and the training and equipment for a variety of pain-compliance techniques; I’m going to guess ‘not swimmingly’.
Can the free product later be used to get a video of the the officers that are requesting you to provide the data without a court mandate or is it forbidden in the ToS?
I would never, ever, allow those infernal machines near me or in my house.
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