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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... (europe.pub)

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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

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[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I am Italian and I have much fewer reasons to feel like you, but I still do and, although loving the friends I made there, I know I will never again set foot in the USA, since this comes from a culture of surveillance dating back more than a century.

I am actually offering temporary accomodation to any of my friends who may want to try their luck in the EU.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The UK has a CCTV facial recognition system that's quite massive, we've resisted such programs for the most part (a few cities have them but they're not linked together).

So it's not like Europe is free of this.

Here most of our camera systems are for our own use only, not for the government, with this giant exception.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 6 points 1 month ago

The UK's CCTV network has been well known for decades. It is actually nuts.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I have no idea how regulated it is right now within the EU, outside of GDPR, but surely there are different laws locally. I don't know if after Brexit something has been added to such laws in the UK, but I must say that even before that it was obvious that the UK LOVED their cameras.

[–] eligibly@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A massive nationwide network of facial recognition CCTV doesn't exist in the UK

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Willing to host a small family from the US that absolutely loves your country?

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

In 52 m2 I can offer a matrimonial bed for a couple visiting to get job interviews for some time, not much more.