Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras?

• jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  it’s so funny to see people on lemmy who fell for cloud connected cameras. you’d think this group would be the last to fall for it, maybe not. i’ve even received them as gifts (very expensive ones) but i just threw it in the trash because that is better than anyone using it.

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i’ve even received them as gifts (very expensive ones) but i just threw it in the trash

    Wouldn’t it have been better to tell the gift giver that you’re really happy that they thought if you, but for security/moral reasons you don’t want to install it? At least they could have returned it and got their money back.

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    • Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They also wouldn’t have noticed that they hadn’t installed it. Honesty in the best policy.

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    • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      not really in that situation

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  • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Recycle or upcycle. Trash is one of the dumbest uses. I understand the total logic it’s just not the best case scenario.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I do my own onvif cameras but I gifted a ring doorbell to my niece for her apartment. She’s non technical, I can’t support her remotely, and that safety was more important than the loss of privacy of a camera looking out onto a public street.

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      the loss of privacy of a camera looking out onto a public street.

      The loss of privacy of a camera that records every face that enters your home and timestamps that data…

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• GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Because I still think the safety and convenience for my family and I outweighs the privacy impact, it’s a camera pointed at a public street.

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  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    it’s a camera pointed at a public street.

    It’s a camera pointed at every person who comes to your house.

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  • michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Convenience? Ok. But safety? Are door viewers unsafe? Image

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    • muelltonne@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Actually - yes, some models are really unsafe. There are “reverse peephole viewers” out there that allow people to, well, view into your apartement. And some models are just screwed together, so a burglar can unscrew them from the outside and then try to push down your handle via the hole.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Very telling that you put convenience on the same level as safety.

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