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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Except it literally is a conspiracy (An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.) and actually happening. Debatably it’s legal, rightful, and not subversive. I think most people would disagree though. It’s not like people are just guessing this is happening. We know the data is being sold, to the police/government, and presumably also to other companies.

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  • janNatan@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In this case, it might not involve the surveillance company selling anything. All an insurance adjuster has to do is knock on doors in the area and ask the home owners if they are willing to share any video footage they have.

    And yes, people do this all the time. I work in this industry.

    I really hate to stand on the side of the data hoarding conglomerates, but there’s a significant chance they were not involved in the release of that video.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Just to be clear in most places it’s not legal to have a video camera pointed at the street (or your neighbors’ houses). Not that this has been enforced at all. But if somebody wanted to pursue you legally for that they could.

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      • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What places?

        Usually it’s a misinterpretation of the law, theyres not meant to interfere with security and law enforcement. There’s always exceptions, usually in hoot they trigger or store the data. If it’s automatically wiped, usually no laws have been broken for example.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sure, but people STILL knock on the doors. They likely didn’t participate in a conspiracy to get it, sorry.

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  • WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And the companies are funded by the CIA.

    It’s on purpose because if the government did it outright people would get made… So instead they are killing all trust in American government by hiding behind other companies.

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