With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
date linked: 10 February 2026
source: link to article, from 404media.co
Ring sucks and is creepy. Here’s the killer paragraph from this story;
Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir or some other high-profile surveillance companies, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism.
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