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More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence (www.themarshallproject.org)

submitted 10 months ago by gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Private security footage is nothing new to criminal investigations, but two factors are rapidly changing the landscape: huge growth in the number of devices with cameras, and the fact that footage usually lands in a cloud server, rather than on a tape.

When a third party maintains the footage on the cloud, it gives police the ability to seek the images directly from the storage company, rather than from the resident or business owner who controls the recording device. In 2022, the Ring security company, owned by Amazon, admitted that it had provided audio and video from customer doorbells to police without user consent at least 11 times. The company cited “exigent circumstances.”

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240116132800/https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/01/13/police-video-surveillance-california

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[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (8 children)

You should always assume any camera to be hostile, unless you have full and complete control over all related software and connections.

Basically, the people who supplied the device will always have more control over it than you do. And big tech just looooves to abuse that and/or cave in to pressure from governments and police agencies.

[–] DaDragon@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Sadly there’s little option for some stuff. Robot vacuums have become super useful, even if they are arguably the biggest security risk that exists. And that will never change, no matter how capable the products get

[–] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

There are open source solutions for robot vaccums provided you get a compatible robot

https://valetudo.cloud/

Unfortunately it's not something the average person's going to undertake.

[–] DaDragon@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The link doesn’t work, but I just found out it’s actually supported on mine! Although I probably won’t mess with it, since I’m not alone here

[–] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the heads up, fixed the link.

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