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
Pray this isn’t legal in the UK, under GDPR i don’t think so but I’m not sure
Guess US-companies don’t really care what’s legal and what’s not. They don’t fear the repercussions of doing illegal shit. They just pay their fine - or they don’t and nothing changes.
GDPR states that saving personal data without consent is illegal and on top you have the right to be deleted and forgotten. I am not even allowed to have a none recording camera sending the image from in front of my door because the space in front of my door is not my private property.
Pretty sure you can record and photograph people from public spaces without seeking consent here (UK) because there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy.
You maybe can record as an individual, but you can’t put up a camera that records while you’re not there.
people assume you cant do it in Cali, BECAUSE they passed a wierd law, but it isnt entirely true that you can record in any form. i think public is an exception.