It's not “heartwarming,” it's cringey. OpEd
In the replies to Paul’s tweet, which featured a screenshot of the TikTok, someone shared a Ring camera request that was much worse. A Reddit user shared an anecdote to a subreddit for Amazon delivery drivers that was captioned, “When buying stuff online gives you a God complex.” In a picture taken of a phone screen, a message from a presumed customer reads, “Could you please say ‘thank you for keeping me employed??’ to the Ring camera, please and thank you.
Amazon doesn’t just seem like a terrible place to work; it also has its own infrastructure of surveillance, including Ring cameras. Last summer,48 advocacy groups called for the Federal Trade Commission to ban corporate surveillance technology, following a report focused specifically on Amazon’s surveillance tech, which includes Ring, Alexa, Echo, and Sidewalk.
“The harms caused by this widespread, unregulated corporate surveillance pose a direct threat to the public at large, especially for Black and brown people most often criminalized using surveillance,”that was issued by the groups to the FTC. “Given these dangers, we’re calling on the FTC to use its rule-making authority to ban corporate use of facial surveillance technology, ban continuous surveillance in places of public accommodation, and stop industry-wide data abuse.
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