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Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
Hot take : almost no one actually needs security cameras in their home.
For the very few who do, visible fake cameras do 95% of the job of real cameras with none of the drawbacks.
i need them inside for my cats i like to look at them. but im using chinese cameras with a home server. there’s hours of me wacking off saved on there by now
But they let me see who is at the door without coming up from the basement.
you could use a periscope
But what if they smack it so it spins around and hits me like in a cartoon? Not sure I can take that risk.
The only drawbacks to having actual security cameras is when you trust your data to a 3rd party known to use your data for evil.
If you record things locally, there’s really zero drawbacks.
Hypothetically the police could come with a warrant and force you to hand over the footage you recorded. It’s a higher barrier than if footage is being uploaded to the cloud, but it can still happen.
And even if the cameras are not uploading their footage to the cloud, it still wouldn’t sit well with me if every other house has a camera pointed at the public street
Where I live it is technically illegal to record the public street with an automated camera, but it’s not really being enforced. So there is Ring cameras everywhere.
If some shit went down that would require a warrant for the data then I’m guessing I’d probably know and be able to make copies or remove the data beforehand.