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We may not know our neighbors very well, but video cameras and social platforms can reveal a lot more than any of us suspect.
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There are a lot of issues worth discussing related to the proliferating of Ring doorbells and Nest cameras: 1) Lack of data literacy, 2) need for safety, 3) enabling technology, and 4) technology ethics.
When people look at data without first determining the source and RELEVANCE, they can draw incorrect conclusions and be unnecessarily stressed. Focusing on crime creates what Gerbner called a 'mean world syndrome' in which the worldview is perceived as more dangerous than it really is.
The level of chaos in the world, which will only ramp up as we head toward elections, increases the sense of uncertainty and fear. This makes surveillance tools a form of reassurance.
Ring and Nest are cheap and available. It makes sense that people would want to take advantage of things that make them feel safer. Whether or not the end result is, in fact, safety, is irrelevant. It's the beliefs that count.
What hasn't been addressed is the ethics of surveillance behaviors - what's ok and what's not within a community and according to accepted social norms.