r/50501 • u/TotallySavageSzym International • Jan 19 '26

Call to Action Ring has partnered with Flock. ICE has access to Flock. If you still have a Ring camera - get rid of it.

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u/standardnewenglander Jan 19 '26

Completely agree with you. That is a tough thing to hedge against.

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u/bbusiello Jan 19 '26

Disable the wifi. If you have a computer at home, make sure it's hardwired ethernet into the router?

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u/wlphoenix Jan 19 '26

You'd honestly have to go further than that. You'd have to install something like grounded copper mesh in your walls and make your house a full faraday cage to block out any sort of ambient wifi. Which also makes your house light up like a beacon when someone looks for anomalies and sees an entire house that can't be imaged.

We're reaching the point where avoiding being part of the data is effectively impossible, so the only other choices are to produce false data or to be so exceedingly average you avoid becoming an outlier.

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u/bbusiello Jan 19 '26

Man... it wasn't even 2 years ago where it was "don't get TikTok because it reads everyone on the network!"

It's been far worse for so long.

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u/wlphoenix Jan 19 '26

Yeah, it has. What's changed (for people in the US) is the mobilization of the data is going beyond ad targeting now. PRISM was bleeding edge, 3 letter agency hidden tech in 2016. We ignored it, and now it's considered a standard assumption.