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People seem all too willing to trade their privacy for inexpensive convenience and novelty. Although they probably don't view it that way.

In any case, Google, Amazon and the like are chipping away at peoples desire for privacy and soon, I imagine privacy will be viewed as a quaint notion from the past. All this just to sell us more stuff.

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Folks spend countless hours manually entering their private data into sites like Facebook and LinkedIn too. In the myopic vein of “just to sell is more stuff” they’re doing it just to look at ads.

I’m not saying I endorse either (I personally do neither), but folks to seem to get more out of these cameras and social media sites than just the return the companies providing them get.

I use Ring. Convenience and novelty were not the reasons I decide to buy it. I did it because of its advertised feature: security.

I use Ring as well, the best feature has been with package delivery. You can check if the package is reasonably hidden and more than once police have been able to catch scumbag criminals within minutes of them stealing a package. It's incredibly beneficial

Well, you know what has been said about purchasing security and giving up liberty...

Thats only applicable if you believe that owning a Ring doorbell requires giving up some portion of your liberty. I have failed to be convinced that it does.

Also, if you are going to make an argument, I would hope it would be more substantial than a pithy argument from 300 years ago. Otherwise, you fall into the same category as those who argue against climate change/evolution using bible verses.

We'll see if in another 20 years the government and law authorities have easy access to things like our Nest and Ring in the name of security.

> I imagine privacy will be viewed as a quaint notion from the past

This has been going on for some time. Do you imagine a respectable person from the past allow his wife to be groped by a stranger before entering the train? Yet, this is totally acceptable with airplanes.

Perhaps if we don't fly on private jets we are not respectable.

Food for thought.

I don't think it's "totally acceptable", just tolerated because it's "the authorities" doing it. I don't know of anyone who accepts what the TSA does, they just tolerate it because they feel like they need to fly and there's no other way around it.

The average person can't really do anything about the TSA, at least not in the moment. The choice is: allow yourself to be groped or don't fly. That's a really bad choice.

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