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Jamie Siminoff

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
209 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

That's just for your, like, that's, you know, how your, I mean, your iPhone today, if you search your iPhone, it's crazy, like search for someone's name in your photos and like their pictures come up.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

And so I do think there's a balance between not allowing technology to exist that should exist that helps people and gives them more efficiency, gives them safer homes, and then also obviously not creating to where you're going to like this sort of dystopian place that, you know, is...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

is that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

And so I think that is like, that's the responsibility.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

But like what we're doing with Familiar Faces is we're just giving you the ability to say like, when my wife comes home, don't, don't, don't, you know, because it is like silly.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

Like, why do I get an alert when my wife comes home?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

I don't want it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

Like, I don't need it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

It's not about the camera.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

I think it's also that the cameras will alert people in a way that's... Part of what made Ring and what made neighbors safer with Ring 1.0, and I think we are in Ring 2.0, is that there was no presence at the home.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

How did people break into homes?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

They would go literally knock, knock burglars.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

They'd go knock, knock like no one was home.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

It was at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

They'd go to the homes next door, find a place that was empty, and they'd go in the home.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

Ring allowed you to now all of a sudden...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

Like when someone comes up to the door, like you're like, oh, I got emotional alert.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

Hi, like what's going on?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

And so it gave presence to the home.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

So it didn't, you know, I don't think you have to go as far as that real time stuff to like get to where we're talking about.