Comment on More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
There are open source solutions for robot vaccums provided you get a compatible robot
valetudo.cloud/pages/
Unfortunately it’s not something the average person’s going to undertake.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’m trying real hard to develop advocacy for this stuff. I think there’s a genuine business to be made helping people use privacy-respecting stuff like this.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
What we need to do is organize and push for a right to privacy rather than work around the system in place.
DaDragon@kbin.social 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
Thanks for the heads up, fixed the link.
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why would you consider robot vacuums to be particularly dangerous in terms of security? I’m certainly more weary of things like Google Nest, Amazon Alexa, pet cams, doorbell cams, that sort of thing.
I know that some but not all vacuums have cameras, and I’d assume some might have microphones as well. But in general it doesn’t strike me as inherently more dangerous to one’s privacy.