{"id":9276,"date":"2026-02-11T12:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9276"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:06:09","slug":"being-watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/02\/11\/being-watched\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Watched?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That TV show \u2018Person of Interest\u2018 from 2012 seems prescient now (or perhaps understated). I don&#8217;t recall door devices in the mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:vcepp6trx4vpe5ourxso4tjl\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mejb3zwp3s2z\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreigtwdj4rqhobdhvrtsygjtv5tzb7qhbagebqc3s3asvvgozd255ci\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">NEW: Ring has introduced &quot;Search Party&quot;, a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.\n\nWith Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:vcepp6trx4vpe5ourxso4tjl\/post\/3mejb3zwp3s2z?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 404 Media (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:vcepp6trx4vpe5ourxso4tjl?ref_src=embed\">@404media.co<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:vcepp6trx4vpe5ourxso4tjl\/post\/3mejb3zwp3s2z?ref_src=embed\">10 February 2026 at 15:18<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That TV show \u2018Person of Interest\u2018 from 2012 seems prescient now (or perhaps understated). I don&#8217;t recall door devices in the mix. NEW: Ring has introduced &quot;Search Party&quot;, a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[470],"class_list":["post-9276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9277,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276\/revisions\/9277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}