Ring And Nest Helped Normalize American Surveillance And Turned Us Into A Nation Of Voyeurs • Discoverology

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The allure of monitoring people silently from afar has also proved more tempting than many expected. Customers who bought the cameras in hopes of not becoming victims joke that instead they’ve become voyeurs.

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