Self-Police State
An article about Ring doorbells being accessible by police without your consent was posted on @RoyalConversations today, and the person posting it asked, “is it a good thing, or is it a police state?”below is my answer. I’ll expound on it in video later!
The thing is, it can be both. The good comes from the fact that you can make your neighborhood safer with connectivity, and the bad is that you lose a lot of privacy.
By nature being outside can’t be considered a “private” act, so what level of privacy should we expect when we’re out and about?
We’re already in a self imposed police state as is, with all the tracking we allow our phones to do while we’re out. We check in to different places, we post geotagged pictures, we make ATM transactions, we have iPass in our cars, we use google maps, we use our fingerprints and faces to open our phones. And a lot of this data is accessible by the government because we post it on social media.
So my synopsis is that we’re already participating in a police state, might as well be safer in our own neighborhoods!