During Halloween I was rather concerned while taking my kids to homes with Ring.
Luckily in most cases the kids had masks, but still.
Next Halloween those homes will be in my do-not-visit list.
Luckily in most cases the kids had masks, but still.
Next Halloween those homes will be in my do-not-visit list.
Now if the said company can connect my kids' photos with their identity based on some other database, it will have a lot more info on them to sell ads and for other nefarious purposes.
Just one scenario I can think of... There may be others.
Also your kids have probably been caught on video hundreds of times at convenience stores, streets, wherever. If you actually wanted to avoid them being on camera at all, you would have to lock them in your house and things would turn out like the movie Dogtooth.
It’s not possible to completely protect your privacy unless you make some very hard and costly choices like moving into a cabin in the woods or living a completely isolationist life without internet or contact with the outside world. Unless you want to make these sacrifices for a very dubious benefit, it would probably be better to just worry about something else.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21606415
Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
Fourth paragraph of the story:
For a very low price, data enrichment companies allow you to take a single piece of information on a person (such as a name or email address), and expand (or enrich) that user profile to include hundreds of additional new data points of information. As seen with the Exactis data breach, collected information on a single person can include information such as household sizes, finances and income, political and religious preferences, and even a person’s preferred social activities.
Each time a company chooses to “enrich” a user profile, they are also agreeing to provide what they know about the person to the enriching organization (thereby increasing the validity of the organization’s future results). Despite efforts from social media organizations like Facebook, the resulting data continues to be compounded, creating a situation with no oversight that ultimately allows all of a person’s social and personal information to be easily downloaded.
https://www.dataviper.io/blog/2019/pdl-data-exposure-billion...
Extrapolate present AI, facial-recognition, location tracking (cell phones), voice-recognition, and integrated databases. You're already 99% of the way there.
What I'm describing is a rather simple system. If I had access to Rings database and Google's database, I can personally create that system and I'm a very ordinary engineer.
Regarding the rest of the comment: I'm just trying to avoid what I can and delay it as long as I can to find a healthy balance. Else why worry about privacy at all.
It's been happening since the inception of marketing and advertising.