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I’ve got a Ubiquiti setup with cameras and a doorbell. It isn’t cheap but it’s local and I highly recommend them if you have the budget.

Where are the hactivists?! Are they all too well employed?

I remember last year when there was a trend of AI generated videos that depicted animals or people doing ridiculous and crazy things on doorbell cameras. Everyone was surprised at how realistic they looked but never questioned why there was enough training data of doorbell cameras to make them in the first place.

Not that relevant, but it makes it pretty clear how "private" this data was in the first place.

Time to put a goatse picture in front of the camera!

Dammit, I fell for rings assurances of “only in response to a warrant”. Mostly out of laziness, but still ….. I really am going to have to figure out self hosting a video doorbell, aren’t i

Of course that happened, that happens every time when you buy things but then don't own them.

I'll buy cams for my home, but they'll be for ME alone because they're MY cameras, MY video.

Obligatory fuck Amazon and fuck the USA

As far as I can tell it's still voluntary. This is their policy. It sounds like if you choose to share photos or video with public safety organizations, that now Flock and hence ICE can access it.

That all said, fuck Flock and I certainly don't want anything I share (which I never have) to contribute to the profits of a private surveillance company. The solution here appears to be share nothing with public safety at all ever so that contract is worth nothing.

This may finally convince my parents to get rid of their ring camera. Thank you

It's just out in the open, you're too stupid if you think they didn't do it already.

You know they are in all of your cloud connected cameras, inside your home, inside your tesla, pretty much everywhere you have a camera... Definitely not just at your front door. The key thing to understand about the surveillance state is that they only acknowledge access of personal data if they intend to use it in a court room. Most of it is just used for spying, information gathering, and parallel construction if necessary.

Crazy how a company owned by Amazon would do this. /s

Are people going to start listening to their "paranoid" nephews yet?

Yeah, the idea of Amazon running my home security did NOT appeal to me. I went with another brand.

I think I want to print out a letter and put it in everyone's home in my neighborhood with one of these. To at least let them know who they're helping. I'd bet a vast majority have no idea.

Reason #186729 why it's insane to have no right to privacy in public.

Fun fact: Recording the public is illegal in Germany. Any private video camera must only be able to record your own property. If you do record (and store - smart doorbells without storage that are only active when they are rung are exempted) material you must have visible warnings (that others can see BEFORE being recorded) or else any evidence you collect is likely to be thrown out in court.