Jason Bassler | @JasonBassler1
Big Brother just got an upgrade.
Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored, tagged, & analyzed without consent.
One step closer to total surveillance.
[Image: A Ring doorbell camera mounted on a brick wall. A digital overlay shows facial recognition scanning a person's face with grid lines. Text on the right reads “Amazon's Ring Adds Facial Recognition to Home Security” with additional text below.]
6:00 PM | Oct 4, 2025
Source: https://x.com/JasonBassler1/status/1974640686419857516
Ran into this one Halloween a few years ago. Fuckers had Halloween decorations out, seeming welcoming, and when my kid went up to the door they used their ring camera to make fun of him. Once society falls in the next year or two, that’s where I’m going first.
For legal reasons, he jusut told me in PM that he will go there to get more candy. He will take ALL their candy and EAT it in front of the ring camera.
We need to normalize spray painting the lenses on these things, as well as painting “big brother” on doorways of those that own them. If you enable fascism, you should expect some minor vandalism.
You could start by sending them a letter that informs them of this occuring and how it impacts the world around them before you skip straight to vandalism. I’m sure a lot of people just never considered the extent of that data that is being shared so much as they figured only they would have access to the footage.
Sure, but then you’re a suspect.
Just go from the side and toss a Molotov at their door.
You can send a letter without a return address. I plan on taking this idea and sending it out to my neighbors who have one. It honestly seems like a fun side activity.
Ugh… Idiots ruin everything. How can people not understand this? Just so fucking ignorant
My parents have one of these. 💀
Guess I’ll be going into their place through the garage lmao
If they have more than one and you can’t avoid them all …. The press release says they will be able to trace your route on the property
Americans are fucking weird, they piss and moan about speed and red light cameras, and claim they are unconstitutional. However, the Ring shit is good to go.
Ring cameras don’t toss a fine at you for walking past them too quickly.
Also, where are people complaining about red light cameras, so I can avoid taking my bike or car anywhere near there? It’s probably a vocal minority, but I’d prefer to know and cover my ass. Just in case.
Nah Ring cameras will just toss police to your door because you look loosely like a person of interest in a case.
Good think police visiting houses doesn’t lead to the death of innocent people on the regular.
they even have speed cameras now, any slightly above the speed limit of a street will imediately give a warning, and fine if it occurs multiple times. you can easily accidentally go over like 5 miles above in an empty street.
So you drive over the permitted speed limit put in place to protect pedestrians on “an empty street”. And you’re complaining about getting multiple warnings before getting fined for ignoring the safe speed limit? You ‘accidentally’ went over the speed limit multiple times on the same street, but the rules shouldn’t apply to you I guess, your highness.
Hell if your car is old bitch like mine you may run into the problem of your speedometer being very minutely off. It’s nothing massive just a mile or two off, but my 01 Tacoma doesn’t have cruise control so I can’t be cautious that way so it can be problematic.
so use GPS to double-check your speed?
I’m not pissing about with GPS speed over a 2 MPH difference that is only a problem going down hill in 25 zone. 90 percent of the time it is wholly irrelevant since I drive a 24 year old 4 cylinder truck.
So just people can’t perceive longer term costs. Damn the government can decrease this backlash so much by just billing from their liability insurance directly instead of sending the fine to the person.
All of Ontario apparently
Given any large database this is going to be a massive problem.
Did someone steal your package?
Do you want to know who did it?
Will you settle for knowing which of the 385 people in the country look like your villain? Some of them may even be close enough to be falsely accused!
Would the police do anything about it even if you had 100% irrefutable proof of who did it? Would you settle for Amazon displaying to those 385 people in your town that sort of look like the thief ads for tools that would make it easier to break into your home?
There are factual existing cases of someone being tried and losing months of their life due to facial recognition wherein the accused wasn’t in the same town as the crime. When the authorities are handled sufficiently gift wrapped cases here is bob bob did wrong here’s the video they often DO pursue them because 95% of such cases are a charging document arrest and plea bargain. In this phase we regularly ask people to choose between probation or a short sentence and being threatened with being punished with 20 years for defending themselves. Sometimes innocent people actually cop a please to avoid their life being destroyed.
Whilst in theory people may be entitled to a lawyer they may either not qualify because they aren’t poor enough or may not get actual representation without spending thousands of dollars people simply don’t have.
Creating a whole host of such cases could be a disaster.
We should make dazzle makeup standard when going outside. It’s the perfect fashion trend for today.
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Nothing a decent laser can’t fix.
We need an anti-camera movement in this country
Or go all-in.
“The courts might not work anymore, but as long as everybody is video taping everyone else, justice will be done.” - Marge Simpson
Bring back masking.
I need camera in my bedroom to give back for all the porn I watched.
I don’t really think cameras are all that bad, the bad thing is the centralization. If someone is willing to record local-only for their own security I see nothing wrong with that.
Add it to the list of shit we desperately need yesterday
“One step closer?” Good one. Total surveillance is already here and has been for a while.
This Ring fuckery just makes it even more convenient forfascistslaw enforcement to find you.Set anything with a ring camera on it on fire. It is the enemy.
Edward Snowden may say (in reality he says to desolder and add manual switches to mics and cameras):
FTFY
Set anything with a camera and mic on it on fire. It is the enemy.
It’s much harder to disperse and admit to using the camera in my phone than that you illicitly accessed.
I went to my sister’s house yesterday, she lived in a gated community and to visit i have to let them take a picture of my face and then scan the cam for access. i thought that’s extremely obnoxious. This is far worst.
that’d be a nope from me
Yeah, no. I’d be inviting my sister to visit me instead.
I’d be saying I was an only child.
Yeah this has to be super inconvenient for the residents. I imagine many delivery services, DoorDash, instacart, will refuse to do this bullshit. Forcing the resident to meet them at the gate, or just not receive service at all. I would be pressuring my HOA to end this policy.
You think people doing door dash deliveries actually care about that? The average person that also uses an iPhone probably has been ok with face unlock for years.
In my workplace they rolled out the face unlock for Windows laptops some time ago. I see many many people making use of that. And I don’t care if in some cases the claim is being made (right or wrong whatever) that images don’t leave the device. The average person won’t think there is a difference to it.
You know details on issues with Apple’s implementation of it, Face ID?
Don’t conflate opt-in local facial recognition with mandatory cloud facial recognition, especially when it’s being sold to cops. It’s a bad take and weakens your credibility.
Jokes on you if you ever thought I am credible.
I’ve had uber drivers cancel on me because they don’t want to enter a gate code. Because it’s inconvenient, could be error prone, and slows them down (I would assume.) So it might not always be privacy concerns but also inconvenience.
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Not in US, but all those non-perishable deliveries will leave their stuff at the main gate guardhouse. Not sure about food though.
you’re assuming she is allowed to leave
Good point. Disturbingly so.
Yall gonna stop paying companies so you can’t help build the surveillance state? No? Awesome…
My face is in all the databases, sadly.
This isn’t legal where I live. It’s not allowed to record public spaces
I was gonna say, I’m not sure this would hold up to legal scrutiny, not that that makes it ok in the first place.
Completely legal in the US.
I really don’t think so.
Sorry to hear you feel that way. It can be tough to be confronted with something you’ve always felt was true but turns out to be false.
Your superior thinks otherwise, my boy.
Did that sound clever in your head before you wrote it?
Everything I have to say is clever in comparison to your bottom of the barrel idiocy.
Same here. All private cameras that record or process data from a public space need to be announced on entrance of a property. Though now that i think about it, idk how ring got passed that law to begin with in 99% of its use cases…
( if its a front door that can only view private property its fine iirc, and if it has public space like roads its a nono )
idk how ring got passed that law to begin with in 99% of its use cases
It doesn’t comply… but the responsibility falls on the person who mounts/uses the hardware, so Amazon does whatever they want.
Right, so i could in theory start sueing. Nice haha
Same as non-legal ebikes perhaps? Where I live the police don’t seem to care unless the rider happens to be a drug dealer or otherwise wanted by the police.
I’d take a guess that while a ring doorbell might be illegal and not enforced, it probably means the recorded footage might be not accepted in court if ever needed… Perhaps (I’m not a lawyer or even close to being an expert). Unless a doorbell inspector becomes a thing then it probably just slides.
And you’re always seen as a “weirdo” or “crazy” or maybe even a thief if you want to opt out with a mask.
just tell them you’re ice
