Interesting database that allows you to look up technologies being used in our communities for surveillance.

Atlas of Surveillance

The list includes agencies who have signed an agreement with Amazon's home surveillance equipment company, Ring, to gain special access to the company's Neighbors app, Drones, License Plate Scanners, Gunshot detection, Video Analytics, Body worn cameras, Cell-site simulators and others.

Interesting to browse to see what is being used in a location near you...

Amazon is evil...Alexa is evil. Who would have thought we would voluntarily opt for full surveillance? 1984 here we come.

Most people just don't care. As far as web pages, and apps that trade services for surveillance, most people see this as they're getting something for nothing. And they're essentially correct. Letting Google, Amazon, or any of the other tech companies watch what there doing has no appreciable negative effect on their lives, while the products they get to use have a positive effect. You can make all the big brother type arguments you want, they just don't care.

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Originally posted by cruiser68:
Amazon is evil...Alexa is evil. Who would have thought we would voluntarily opt for full surveillance? 1984 here we come.

Not so much involved here, extreme WNY has one drone operated by the city 15 miles away.

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1984 here we come.

Not 1984, but Brave New World.

In the introduction to his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman wrote:

"Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But, in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture ..."

Huxley indeed. Not only do we voluntarily submit to surveillance, we actually pay for the equipment and installation.

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Originally posted by cruiser68:
Who would have thought we would voluntarily pay opt for full surveillance?

Minor correction there. People consciously pay and welcome it into their homes.

The plan is the police will get permission from homeowners to have 24/7 access to their security cameras. In this case the “ring” door bell cameras (and anything else as well).

This way they can use that access to help suppress crime.

In a perfect world....

The collective stupidity responsible for this is itself immeasurable.

All under the guise of "free".

"Appalling" barely scratches the surface.

The effectiveness of the Ring camera Amazon/Law Enforcement 'partnership' seems to be questionable when the supposed advantage gained is known to those who are perpetrating crimes like the following report from 23 December 2020: A Neighbor Describes What Happened When Law Enforcement Stopped Responding to an Armed Encampment in North Portland

According to the neighbor quoted in the article:

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On Saturday last week, an individual went around and broke the Ring cameras off of people's front doors, on their doorbells, with a crowbar.