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Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

  • termaxima@slrpnk.netEnglish
    144·
    2時間前

    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.

    EDIT : I’ll go even further and say an official looking sticker / plaque that says something like “this house has cameras” does at least 50% of the work already.

    • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      9時間前

      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

    • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      17時間前

      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.

      • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3時間前

        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.

        • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          3時間前

          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.

      • termaxima@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        2時間前

        That’s annoying (or at least, takes some work) to set up, and more expensive.

        Out of order cameras are basically (sometimes literally) free, need no wiring work, and don’t “accidentally” record any embarrassing / private moments you then have to delete !