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Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? (www.usatoday.com)
submitted 5 hours ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A Super Bowl ad for Ring security cameras boasting how the company can scan neighborhoods for missing dogs has prompted some customers to remove or even destroy their cameras.

Online, videos of people removing or destroying their Ring cameras have gone viral. One video posted by Seattle-based artist Maggie Butler shows her pulling off her porch-facing camera and flipping it the middle finger.

Butler explained that she originally bought the camera to protect against package thefts, but decided the pet-tracking system raised too many concerns about government access to data.

"They aren't just tracking lost dogs, they're tracking you and your neighbors," Butler said in the video that has more than 3.2 million views.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 30 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The only ones that don't are ones that only send data to your data storage.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And even then, big question mark, as most Chinese produced camera modules have black box firmware. If it's on the Internet it's not yours.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

My cameras have local network access only. Most people who are tech savvy enough to set up their own storage are also able to block Internet access for security cameras.

But another big concern for externally mounted cameras with microsd cards is the confiscation of those cards. They are are very easy to remove, often without tools and I don't believe for a minute that the fact that a warrant is required would make police actually get one before taking the card.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Which cameras do you use?

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

TP-Link (which are cheap but so unreliable I had to add smart switches to reset them when they stop working), Foscam and Dahua. Dahua is by far the best. All of them record to a local server running Home Assistant and Frigate.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 points 44 minutes ago

I really need to set up frigate. Been procrastinating for months 😐