This is cute, but also Ring doorbells are seriously the thing that scares me most on Halloween.

This morning, I read an excellent piece by Lam Thuy Vo at The Markup expressing concern about how services like Amazon’s Ring cameras can distort police priorities and perpetuate bias. Here’s a good summary passage: As a reporter, I’ve always been interested in systems that disadvantage some people—when it comes to policing, they are often Black or Latino—while prioritizing the wishes of a smaller, much more powerful subset—often affluent White folks.

Solid article right here.

Public-private surveillance is the worst of both worlds. Ring is creepy.

Hear hear. Ring is a creepy company, and we shouldn’t support them.

This sounds worrying to me. Surveillance can and will be abused, and we should be wary about embracing it on this scale.

It is fun to see all my neighbors’ Halloween decorations tonight. It is less fun to see how many of them have Ring doorbells capturing my comings and goings.

I missed the vertical integration aspect of this in earlier reporting I’ve read. It makes this story even worse.

This is a gross idea for a TV show, and I’m glad people are pushing back against it.

Such a bad idea. Normalizing Ring won’t make it any better—only worse.

It’s concerning to see private surveillance prop up public surveillance like this.

I’ve been plenty spooked by Ring’s video capabilities, but apparently I haven’t been worried enough about its audio surveillance.

A great example of Ring cameras being gross.

Nope nope nope nope. If plate readers are going to become more common, I’ve got to start biking more places. Not that that will protect against Ring. 🤮🤮🤮