There's no real empirical evidence that having a ring door bell makes you any safer. But i believe in the haskin specie kind of talks about how people increasingly see their homes like as a fortress when they're surrounded with these cameras. And so it increases this kind of fear and this kind of anxiety about what's happening around the home, and naturally leads to these communities that just become much more reactionary and fearful, and nothing has really changed.
Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss the ethics of tech media recommending surveillance devices, aspects of “smart” technologies you might not have considered, and why we should think twice about surrounding ourselves with cameras and microphones.
Chris Gilliard is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center. Follow Chris on Twitter at @hypervisible.
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