We consumers have no protection against big tech
Youjust need to care enough, be able to afford them (while my vacuum has no camera, it requires the cloud, but it was significantly cheaper than a local or hackable one), and have the ability to self host something like home assistant.
Sure you can root all your own hardware but you can’t stop the fact that your walk down the street is documented by Amazon and Google front door bells
There is no opt out of this surveillance if you live in modern society
Quite an if you got there... pointing security or doorbell cameras to public spaces isn't legal where I live.
At this point I'd consider anything not locally hosted (and certainly anything owned by Google, Amazon, or facebook) to be highly suspect.
Stop buying it. You are not a robot that is forced to purchase a video doorbell or a robotic vacuum cleaner or a smart thermostat.
You have free will. If you do not like a commercially available product, don't buy it, don't use it. It's that simple.
That's my policy, but there's a sucker born every minute and they are buying these products so anytime you are in or near their homes or anywhere a microphone or camera can see you (even one mounted on some idiot's head) you're at risk. Even worse, both people and corporations typically don't disclose their use of those devices when you enter their homes/businesses either.
Sure you can just not buy the thing.
But can’t stop the fact that your wall down the street is documented by Amazon and Google front door bells
There is no opt out of this surveillance if you live in modern society
Yes, there are ToS, but it's fine for us as a society to say that consumers deserve more protection against big tech so we aren't a TOS update away from having everything shared or be used for something that wasn't promoted.
> You have free will. If you do not like a commercially available product, don't buy it, don't use it.
Caveat emptor. But lemon laws exist, too.
And, a commercially available product now might not be the same a year from now.
1. It'd be great to ease the method for updating, it'd be nice to be able to easily monitor the device especially if it could become active in some manner while you're absent (I don't want the stove turning on to broil right after I leave on a three month vacation)
Worse it's allowed for them to remote into your device and disable features that you bought the device to use, by paywalling them off behind a subscription service that didn't exist when you brought the product home or just them entirely. To me that's no different than theft. It doesn't matter if it's amazon logging into you kindle overnight and removing books you already paid for from your virtual bookshelf, or Sony pushing an update to remove the option to use linux on your PS3, or BMW deciding that you should have to pay them every month just to use the heated seats option you already paid for when you bought your car.
If I, as an individual, sold you something than broke into your house to steal it or break it or demand ransom to get parts back that would be a crime, but companies get away with it somehow. What Google, Facebook, and Amazon do are basically just stalking.
Stop feeding the parasites.
Can't help with the rest unfortunately.
I like to call big tech, “Little Sister” since governments are “Big Brother”
And they both charge an annual subscription.
today i learned this word has a definition outside of cryptography. it appears to be UK slang for pedophile.
Meta RayBans, deservedly.
Take a walk down whatever area has the best night life near you and you will see tons of people wearing meta glasses. It's so common.
> [dupe] Discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225130 .
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[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sVTm608LBg [video][50m]
So fines and regulations are priced in as a fraction of the net earnings.
https://mashable.com/article/meta-7-billion-dollars-scam-ads
We have been telling people to stay away from big USA tech companies and what they do??
Buy a smart glass from said company!!
No symphaty, and knowing how the system works, these videos will never be deleted and will move from one hanf to another, until somebody leaks them online or request money.
People never learn!!!
Weird way to say workers given anonymity for whistleblowing interviewed by two reporters and not denied by meta in their response?
If state laws permit the capture of light, let them capture light. Light has no spectrum allocation laws, no license required to emit, and as long as you're not disturbing anyone (e.g. with deliberately obnoxious use of visible wavelengths), you're not breaking any laws.
LiDAR operators do not have a legal duty to protect image sensors around them.