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Something like 90% of houses in this area have some kind of camera on it. I hate being filmed by these shitheads 24/7.
I'm one of those. Honestly it's great to have. Not sure about situations where a house is closer to the road, but mine doesn't record people on the sidewalk. You have to walk halfway up my driveway or more before it picks up on something to record. Helps me keep an eye on the stray cats that have a heated home on my porch, though.
You're part of the problem. Get rid of it.
Best option is to recommend people self host their camera feeds. People aren't going to give cameras up, myself included, but keeping it all out of the ring/nest/netvue or any other cloud system is the way to go.
People can record in public, and that includes the area around their houses. Having 100s of thousands or millions of cameras sharing feeds with law enforcement for warrantless surveillance or corporate data hounds for more people tracking is the issue.
Yes. I would have no issue with all my neighbors having local systems like I'm switching to. But putting a cloud camera out on the sidewalk, where it's not pointing at your entrance, but just filming passersby (my new neighbor)... eek. I am thinking of leaving him a note, just politely asking why he feels the need to record me walking my dog every day. At least put up a privacy notice we can all read and sign before crossing the public easement that people are totally allowed to walk. Let me know how me and my dog's facial structures are going to be used to train mysterious backroom Planitir AIs. Like good neighbors do.
Don't take it personally. You think your neighbor wants to record you and your dog specifically? I mean, it's possible, but it's likely they just want to be able to see who comes to their door, or have a general idea of what's going on around their house. I have my locally hosted reolink doorbell set to trigger on zones if things enter my driveway or approach my door, because that's what I care about. I get a bunch of crap with kids playing in the street running onto my property, people's dogs straying off the sidewalk, and the occasional vehicle turning around. But I also figured out what kids were doing dong dashing, and have record of what deliveries were suplexed WWE style onto my doormat so I can more easily handle stuff damaged in shipping.
If you hear some crazy shit outside you probably get up and look out the window, don't you? Well, a camera means you can go back and see what happened all the time. It's a no brainer why people want them now that they're cheap and accessible.
Most people don't have any idea how bad cloud cameras are for overall society, and they'll probably roll their eyes and think you're crazy if you try to dive into that conversation with them out the gate.
They're legally within their rights to do what they're doing, so you can dislike it all you want but there's not much you can do about it without some pretty diplomatic conversations. And a passive aggressive note left about them watching you and your dog isn't going to help your case, at ALL. First you'll have to become friends with them so they trust you, then find a way to educate them and change their minds.
ofc neighbour does not want to record them, personally, but obviously they personally are negatively affected, against their will.
don't forget that people aren't leaving the house for the chance to be a public actor.
I don't think they're disputing any of that if it's hosted locally (including safely remote accessed by you). i think they're talking about it being fed to the cloud & commoditised, which is a valid concern imo.
No thank you, it's very useful and not shared. I have the right to video my own property.
And why would I? My cameras record to my sever and nobody sees the cast majority of the footage.
I was having catalytic converters stolen, and packages stolen, and even bridge toll trackers stolen. Then I added a bunch of lights and cameras. Now it doesn’t happen anymore. What am I supposed to do?
Replace the cameras with dummy cameras, because like you said "It doesn't happen anymore."
And who cares. My cameras record do you know who sees 99% of it nobody. It just gets recorded over.
Yup. 1 day I just counted all the cameras on my way to get breakfast it was 57. And I'm sure I've missed many.
It's everywhere, I take public transit and there's always some dummy filming his girlfriend or tourists staring in wonder at a train coming out of a tunnel and filming that too. I try to move away as quickly as possible. Now even at the public library entrance there is a camera. Guess I can't go naked anymore!
Unless America is way different most of those cameras are standalone systems.