Dozens of civil rights groups are calling on Amazon and MGM to cancel Ring Nation reality show

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Before Ring Nation even airs, privacy and civil rights advocates are calling for the show’s cancellation.

was announced, but Cancel Ring Nation’s letter emphasizes how, in a post-world especially, people should understand how Ring cameras can be weaponized against them and how that weaponization can be exacerbated by programs like“Ring isn’t just giving police departments access to surveillance data: it provides them with backdoor access to a mass surveillance network that operates independent of the Fourth Amendment and any oversight,” the letter says.

”pulls from footage that Ring users themselves choose to share, what’s troubling is the way that the show — just by existing — presents Ring cameras as a source of entertainment by way of their normalized use. The letter notes that even though there will be individuals who consent to be part of, there’s no way of guarding unsuspecting groups “against the harms stemming from Ring’s surveilling communities at large, especially marginalized communities targeted by police.

 

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To be replaced by 'You Say The Darnest Things In Your Sleep'

Love Ring love police having access to it everyone should have a few we could cut crime way down

Wanda’s people should have warned her to steer clear of this shitfest. Nothing good for anyone will come out of this.

Wanda Sykes is the epitome of unfunny

Lol it’s because a certain type or breed are the ones mostly committing theft and crimes caught on these cameras

mattburgess1 This is so dystopian.

Oh goody. With Roomba the surveillance can extend into the bedroom. That will make even better television. FTC linakhanFTC

It is pretty messed up when you consider the implications of the show's existence, but cancelling the show won't change the fact of the surveillance.

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