Google Nest or Amazon Ring? Just reject these corporations' surveillance and a dystopic future

"In his book “1984,” George Orwell imagined that Big Brother-type surveillance would be imposed on us by a violent state. But it’s becoming clear that, in fact, we are eager participants in building our own dystopia, purchasing the very devices that constantly monitor, track and record us simply for our own convenience or a sense of safety. In the process, we’re laying the foundations for a bleak and oppressive future, because corporate surveillance sold for consumer purposes can just as easily be used as a tool for tyranny — and history shows us that it will.

And our self-surveillance devices have already begun to betray us."

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