as a result of these serious encroachments on our privacy.

Well said. It’s pretty astounding the amount of people who are not only okay with, but will vigorously defend fascist-adjacent behavior these days. Many of the replies you received underscore this phenomenon.

LOL you got the whole Ring staff/ bootlickers coming after you. Its funny if you suggest going the CCTV route like Europe it will be deemed un american . Yet when you criticize Ring and these tech companies profiting and spitting on your privacy, people lose their minds.

LNRyan--the Prosecutor--is absolutely 100% right—unfortunately you can’t trust the Sheriff. Two years ago I had poachers on my property and tried to stop them with methods totally within the law—placing dead trees and brush on my fence line. The same day, I was arrested on a bogus warrant by a Deputy that I later…

You’re surprised that a site whose readers and authors are ostensibly majority Gen-Y don’t have a problem with intrusion on their lives by the gov’t? This is the same generation that broadcasts their lives online willfully, lean hard to the socialism and communism side of the political spectrum, expect laws to prevent…

Every week, it seems like there’s more confirmation of what I guessed was coming when Microsoft tried to sell the XBox One with an always-on camera: even Orwell didn’t guess that people would actually pay for the “privilege” of having Big Brother watch them.

I’m seriously taken aback by how many people on Gizmodo just came for you personally. Apparently there are more authoritarians reading this blog than I previously knew. :-/  

Well put.

Due to being raised in an environment of "sharing" and social media, the majority of people under 30 do not take privacy seriously. And furthermore they don't appreciate the 1st amendment that much either.

only CHILDREN want open access cameras and microphones in their houses

You’ve never had an asshole neighbor I think. The type who calls the cops because they just think they need to control every aspect of the neighborhood or your life. The one who calls zoning the week after you move into a home because the fence the previous owner let fall into disrepair and you get fined because its…

Yeah it’s all fun and games until you realize that a significant number of post on Neighbors boards say things like “there’s a suspicious black guy in the area” and, sigh, you realize they’re talking about you and your friends.

I am seriously taken aback by all the comments that minimize the alarm that we should all feel as a result of these serious encroachments on our privacy. By way of background not only am I am a prosecutor, but I’ve also recently had an iPhone (along with about $15 worth of change) stolen from my car, which was parked…

Just because people want something doesn’t make everything ok with products like this. The warnings this piece highlights aren’t directed towards what people want. They are for the unseen circumstances users are subjected to that come with these services. And moving target or not, most people would prefer a company…

If it was merely to keep miscreants from pilfering packages from my porch and telling solicitors to fuck off, I see little issue using the footage to convict the thieves. I’d gladly share the data/footage as long as it’s solely my choice or of course as a result of a warrant. I mean, who wants thefts going unanswered…

No, you do that, console warring shit is old and trite, if you have nothing to contribute then post nothing, unless you want to get flagged.

The XBox One is a console that submitted its two week notice.

Me and my friends were watching the Blair witch trailer and were going back and forth between an Alan wake, or an Outlast. Friend shouts Blair Witch and were all like no fucking chance laughing loudly, way too long since that was a thing.

Whenever I see this analysis of the situation, it always feels like people are saying “I don’t care, so long as it doesn’t have an effect on me.”

“People don’t like to admit they’re able to be manipulated because it destroys our idealised conceptualisation of free will, which is why people are loathe to support rules to limit this kind of thing.”