Prior to Amazon acquisition, Ring offered "swag" to customers who snitched on their neighbors

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/12/quis-custodiet-iot.html

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Oh the humanity, or lack there of.

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The “Digital Neighborhood Watch” program reads like a good old fashioned pyramid scheme.

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I am absolutely planning to insult someone in the near future by calling them a ‘blockwart’.

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I get a sensation that Amazon is distancing itself from Ring by letting this leak out. “Hey now,” Amazon iss saying, “we actually are on your side! Ring was a lot creepier before we came along, and we want you to think we’re making them more ethical than they were before! And don’t think about Alexa snooping on you, that’s not related at all, nuh uh!

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So basically, report any person of color seen in neighborhood. What could possibly go wrong there?

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