Reject Google Nest or Amazon Ring Corp Surveillance and a Dystopic Future
I am seeing increasing numbers of these types of articles, but I don&#x27;t know how I feel. First of all, many of them, like this one, seem to conflate two separate issues: poor security practices and then the dystopic, surveillance concerns. I don&#x27;t see the two being particularly related.<p>I absolutely agree that Ring products should have better security features like required 2FA. But I&#x27;m not sold on the idea of our society becoming a surveillance state because people have video doorbells. It seems like a stretch and one that is born out of a tendency for people to see all technology as &quot;the thing&quot; that will be what ends our society and ushers in a 1984-esque dystopia. I&#x27;m skeptical.<p>I don&#x27;t have to be convinced that I shouldn&#x27;t be trusting Amazon or Google with my best interests. But I don&#x27;t see how security cameras, or at least the video doorbells, are more dangerous than all of the other things we&#x27;ve just already accepted, like constant tracking of our positions via smartphones and our online browsing habits.<p>Perhaps I&#x27;m wrong, I suppose time will tell.