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Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State (greenwald.substack.com)
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Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

I know a lot of times replies are viewed as "You're wrong!" but this, if anything, I think reinforces your comment:

I went looking for statistics and couldn't find any, but did run across these assertions:

  1. CCTVs of undefined/all types aupposedly increased crime clearance rates ("solved") by around 20%. I suspect most of these are higher-quality ones in businesses or on public streets
  2. Amazon claims 55% reduction in crime in pilot programs with doorbell cameras but a study by some org of that situation found no statistical difference

Certainly people are becoming more aware of those cameras and perhaps covering up to disguise their identity. So at most they might deter someone from going for your house, but as they become even more common, that effect will probably drop off.