The only drawbacks to having actual security cameras is when you trust your data to a 3rd party known to use your data for evil.
If you record things locally, there’s really zero drawbacks.
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termaxima@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Hot take : almost no one actually needs security cameras in their home.
For the very few who do, visible fake cameras do 95% of the job of real cameras with none of the drawbacks.
Kushan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Humanius@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Hypothetically the police could come with a warrant and foce you to hand over the footage you recorded. It’s a higher barrier than if footage is being uploaded to the cloud, but it can still happen.
And even if the cameras are not uploading their footage to the cloud, it still wouldn’t sit well with me if every other house has a camera pointed at the public street
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
If some shit went down that would require a warrant for the data then I’m guessing I’d probably know and be able to make copies or remove the data beforehand.
termaxima@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
That’s annoying (or at least, takes some work) to set up, and more expensive.
Out of order cameras are basically (sometimes literally) free, need no wiring work, and don’t “accidentally” record any embarrassing / private moments you then have to delete !
Kushan@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Sure, the effort to set up an actual working thing will always be more than setting up a broken thing.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
i need them inside for my cats i like to look at them
DireTech@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
But they let me see who is at the door without coming up from the basement.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
you could use a periscope
DireTech@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
But what if they smack it so it spins around and hits me like in a cartoon? Not sure I can take that risk.
EldenLord@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Raspberry pi + pi camera + camera case connected to wifi is way better anyway and doesn‘t steal your data