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

  • termaxima@slrpnk.net
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    6 days ago

    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.

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      6 days ago

      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.

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        5 days ago

        Hypothetically the police could come with a warrant and foce 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

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          5 days ago

          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.

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      5 days ago

      Raspberry pi + pi camera + camera case connected to wifi is way better anyway and doesn‘t steal your data