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Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? (www.usatoday.com)
submitted 19 hours ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A Super Bowl ad for Ring security cameras boasting how the company can scan neighborhoods for missing dogs has prompted some customers to remove or even destroy their cameras.

Online, videos of people removing or destroying their Ring cameras have gone viral. One video posted by Seattle-based artist Maggie Butler shows her pulling off her porch-facing camera and flipping it the middle finger.

Butler explained that she originally bought the camera to protect against package thefts, but decided the pet-tracking system raised too many concerns about government access to data.

"They aren't just tracking lost dogs, they're tracking you and your neighbors," Butler said in the video that has more than 3.2 million views.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 53 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The only ones that don't are ones that only send data to your data storage.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

And even then, big question mark, as most Chinese produced camera modules have black box firmware. If it's on the Internet it's not yours.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 47 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

My cameras have local network access only. Most people who are tech savvy enough to set up their own storage are also able to block Internet access for security cameras.

But another big concern for externally mounted cameras with microsd cards is the confiscation of those cards. They are are very easy to remove, often without tools and I don't believe for a minute that the fact that a warrant is required would make police actually get one before taking the card.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Which cameras do you use?

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

TP-Link (which are cheap but so unreliable I had to add smart switches to reset them when they stop working), Foscam and Dahua. Dahua is by far the best. All of them record to a local server running Home Assistant and Frigate.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I really need to set up frigate. Been procrastinating for months 😐

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Frigate is a marvel. Setting it up and tweaking it does take time but once done it requires almost no maintenance (at least in my experience) and is close to flawless. It's only had 1 false alert in the last year and that was caused by a spiderweb on the camera. I wish all my applications were as trouble free.

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's only had 1 false alert in the last year and that was caused by a spiderweb on the camera.

Make sure you fill out a bug report.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Booo!

Well done.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

TP-Link

I hope its not one of the 32 TP-Link cameras that have unpatched auth flaws allowing malicious actors to reset the admin credentials in them.. This is a local exploit, so you're probably okay, but these exploits could be used in concert with others to compromise your security/privacy.

[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Friend don’t let friends get TP-LINK they am never updated their products properly and their products are full of known CVEs

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The cameras have no Internet access at all. Someone would need to be already inside my network for this vulnerability to be a problem.