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Amazon shuts down man’s “smart” home after automated doorbell allegedly committed an

This may be off the wall or, it could be 2001 A Space Odyssey
https://www.newstarget.com/2023-06-16-amazon-deactivates-smart-doorbell-owner-committed-racism.html

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A man by the name of Brandon Jackson was locked out of his so-called "smart home" recently after Amazon shut it all down due to allegedly "racist" statements he made that were picked up by the always-listening spy devices he owns.

The Amazon Ring doorbell device locked Jackson out of his own home after the Amazon device, and possibly several others, caught him saying something that the company found to be "offensive" and "politically incorrect." Jackson wrote the following in a piece for Medium:

"On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, I finally regained access to my Amazon account after an unexpected and unwarranted lockout that lasted nearly a week, from Thursday, May 25. This wasn't just a simple inconvenience, though. I have a smart home, and my primary means of interfacing with all the devices and automations is through Amazon Echo devices via Alexa. This incident left me with a house full of unresponsive devices, a silent Alexa, and a lot of questions."

Cancel culture at its finest!

Yep, I disable Siri and don't have any Amazon devices. Actually, I got a little video box for free. I've never used it.

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In the past, I had a smart thermostat, but I had that thermostat blocked (unable to access the Internet). I was able to control the thermostat from my home network, and the cloud wasn't required. I think I had that about 15 years ago, for about 5 years. I haven't had anything else smart working on the cloud since.

There's more than 1 lesson here...................

Seems like Big Brother wants us all connected.
-Started with credit cards to track what you buy.
-Internet that collect data with cute little "cookies" (sounds so harmless).
-Medical records (and DNA if you did the genealogy thing) in a central data base.
-Smart phone that tracks everything you search and GPS to track where you go.
-Cameras everywhere "for your safety" (but crime has not gone down and criminals aren't prosecuted).
-Facial recognition.
-"Smart" thermostats that the utility can control.
-"Smart" homes with Ring doorbells, Security systems, Alexa or Siri listening to everything you say (but of course they would never violate your privacy a la facebook).
-Next will be chips implanted under your skin (already used by some corporations but soon to be mandated).

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Originally Posted by astrochex (Post 12025222)

https://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-politics-religion/1141704-amazon-confirms-they-shut-off-man-s-smart-home.html

Not everyone goes to the sewer....

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Originally Posted by Zeke (Post 12025264)

Not everyone goes to the sewer....

:D

Sometimes the rats come here, though. For the sunshine, I guess.