Surveillance At Your Front Door

About this episode

The episode explores the relationship between immigrants and consumer home surveillance devices, focusing on safety perceptions and changing attitudes towards these technologies.

Government agencies, law enforcement, and retail businesses are increasingly making use of surveillance technologies like license plate readers to monitor and track members of the public. While privacy rights advocates critique the way these institutions can abuse the data they’re collecting, some individuals opt to use these technologies in their own homes. Producer Ahmed Ashour explores the relationship between immigrants and consumer home surveillance devices like Ring cameras. Do immigrants feel that these technologies keep them safe? And how have attitudes towards these devices changed in recent years?

People in this episode

Host: Ahmed Ashour

Topics covered

• surveillance
• privacy rights
• immigrants
• home security
• consumer technology

Keywords

• surveillance technologies
• license plate readers
• Ring cameras
• privacy rights
• immigrant safety

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ring, Government agencies, law enforcement, retail businesses, privacy rights advocates

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