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The Apple doorbell cam won’t include dystopian total surveillance

Amazon and Google failed the public with their privacy-stealing doorbell cameras. And that's an opportunity for Apple.

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Mike Elgan
Feb 17, 2026
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Classic 20th-century science fiction predicted cautionary dystopian scenarios involving all-powerful governments pwning citizens in various ways. Now that the future is here, we’re pwning ourselves.

Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1924 novel We imagined a “One State” that forced people to live in glass apartments to erase privacy. Now, everybody voluntarily exposes…

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