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This gets us to the central problem of today’s surveillance state. No one running the cameras wants to be observed. One reason that city officials object to releasing Flock data, for example, must that they themselves are among the recorded. The cameras are on them too; they too can be tracked. Everything means everything for these everywhere cameras.

  • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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    3 months ago

    That’s how it is done.
    If it is a public camera, it has to be a public record.
    And if not, then anyone having access to the feed, has to have their whole life (both work and personal) be available as a public record.

    If not, then you now have cases where most people can’t afford to defend themselves from malicious cop allegations.
    To prevent this, anyone arrested, pre-trial has to have access to all searches done by cops, related to the allegation and ability to pull-up 100% of their own footage anytime near the event in question.

    If any part of the footage is deleted, due to “technical issues” like, “the footage was deleted” or “some of the cameras were not working”, then the arrest is illegal and the police department is responsible for compensation.

  • Alenalda@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Something like 90% of houses in this area have some kind of camera on it. I hate being filmed by these shitheads 24/7.

    • phar@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      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.

        • pishadoot@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          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.