• Monkey With A Shell
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        1410 months ago

        They could look to argue those, but I’d suspect they just say ‘get a warrant’ now rather than allowing for the 3rd party records requests, which by all accounts warrants are pretty rubber stamp. From my non-lawyer recollection there’s never been a mandate to get a warrant for records in possession of a 3rd party outside of things protected by other laws like banking or HIPPA. So a provider can hand out lists of all your convos, locations, etc if they want. Some do without question, and after a long record of complying with police requests I have a hard time believing Amazon will suddenly change their tune without force. Path of least resistance and all that.

    • littleblue✨
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      210 months ago

      Precisely. They’re just gonna be much more careful about their continuation in doing so actually getting out again.

    • @TheFriar@lemm.ee
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      I fucking hate these doorbell cameras. In my building, my neighbor across the hall has one,so EVERY SINGLE TIME I come and go from my apt im being recorded. And there’s another on the floor below me. So they know where I go in my building. It’s fucked up. I literally have zero privacy on when I’m coming and going from my apartment.

      • @deranger@sh.itjust.works
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        I’ve considered building some kind of laser to destroy the sensors in these cameras. I think it’s absolutely fucked my neighbors can have a camera pointed at my front door 24/7.

        • @TheFriar@lemm.ee
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          If you ever manage to develop it, I’ll be your first customer. I absolutely hate that I’m under constant surveillance any time I step out of my front door. Especially since it’s probably Amazon or any of those other shitty companies whose entire purpose was to make a network of surveillance accessible to police.

      • @TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world
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        It’s a long shot, but you could have a chat with the building manager and/or landlord and voice these concerns. I don’t know if they’ll do anything, but you never know.

      • Rocket
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        Thing is. Good chance your neighbour was probably a victim of crime. A few nights in a row I was making supper and someone was trying to get in my place by trying the handle. My packages also started to go missing and a few years ago someone walked into my apartment while I was trying to wrangle my cat because the fire alarm was going off, pretty sure they wanted to rob my place because they left without saying anything and got freaked out when they saw me still there. It’s nice having it because I can see who is at my door Without putting myself in the line of fire, and it deters people from pulling any bullshit while I’m not home.

        It’s understandable that it’s a bit annoying it’s pointed right at your door. Mine doesn’t face anyone’s door. Just the hallway, you could ask your neighbour to install an angled adapter so it’s not facing your door. Personally I treat my building hallways like I would treat any public place, and always assume there’s a camera somewhere. There’s also a very good chance there is CCTV in your building already if it’s a larger building.

        • @TheFriar@lemm.ee
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          Yeah, there are definitely cameras in the lobby, but none of the individual floors. And they’re not ring cameras or whatever the Amazon ones are called. The personal doorbell cameras are a huge security risk and a malevolent actor could hijack my neighbor’s to see when I’m not home. So it puts me in more risk, arguably. Not to mention whatever shitty security the camera company has. The building is a little older and the cameras in he lobby are cctv, so a little different. And I get being cautious. I just wish it weren’t pointed at my door. Like you said, I can always talk to them.

  • @AdmiralShat@programming.dev
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    Not even just a technical security standpoint, why would you put a live camera up when someone else legally owns the feed?

    I’ve had discussions and people claim it’s no different because other systems can be hacked and you have a phone with a camera that can be remotely accessed, etc.

    But those things are illegal, the people using Ring are knowingly putting up a camera where someone else owns the footage. They aren’t hacking, they aren’t stealing. In fact, they’re letting you borrow the footage anytime you check the camera yourself.

    • @Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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      Because people have been trained since the eighties to ignore EULAs and just click “ok”.

      Most people, have no idea they don’t own the video their door bell takes…

      Hell I’m fairly tech savvy and I didn’t know. (Don’t have a camera).

      • Aniki 🌱🌿
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        210 months ago

        Tech savvy people don’t fall for the bullshit or use open source products.

        • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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          There’s two kinds of tech enthusiasts. Ones who think cloud based is a great feature that means they don’t have to worry about it as much, and ones who understand that using the cloud just means you give up control of any data that ends up there, possibly along with control of the device itself.

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            Wait, don’t forget the third type: the kind that knows self-hosting is better in almost all ways, and hates HATES not having ownership (or even just access!) to the raw data and dev interface, but is too ground down by their capitalist bullshit work week and other life to keep up with the admin of maintaining their own systems. SIGH.

            I don’t use Arch, btw.

            • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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              Yeah, that’s a subset of the 2nd group. I’m in that group. I’d like to have some smart home features but haven’t gotten around to setting it up and don’t want the easy options.

              Plus is there even a smart water softener in the market that you can have a server check how much soft water is available before it needs to cycle and compare with how much water a dishwasher or laundry cycle needs to cycle the softener before running either of those to make sure it doesn’t run out?

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      In a way the sketchy off brand seems like a better idea in that case, at least there’s not some monolithic entity holding millions of feeds to ask for access to

      • WolfdadCigarette@threads.net
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        810 months ago

        I still remember watching unsecured cameras through a site I’d feel uncomfortable posting. All five minutes of it was eye opening. As an aside, more external security cameras are connected to the internet than I had originally thought.

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          Oh I’m sure browsing through something like shodan.io would give a bunch of open feeds. Some are intentional, a lot are mistakes, bringing their presence to light is a net good though in alerting both the public and potentially the owner to fix their gear.

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          210 months ago

          If it’s the site that I’m thinking of, they don’t support HTTPS.

      • Paradox
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        But you don’t have to go sketchy off brand. You can get Ubiquiti if you want a really good system, or eufy or reolink if you don’t want to muck about with the sysadmin stuff Ubiquiti requires

        • @frezik@midwest.social
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          I’ve setup a Ubiquiti system. There are two things to know:

          • For the cost of local storage, you are going to spend several years worth of subscription fees
          • The login is still controlled by Ubiquiti’s cloud system, which has had its own problems in the recent past

          Now, I think those are acceptable tradeoffs, but I think we should be clear about its limitations.

        • Monkey With A Shell
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          Yeah, plenty of options out there. I have a couple cheap Chinese type that aren’t plugged in on any regular basis. Neat thing is that the accounts are basically by serial number if I recall from back when I set it up, so with them off my trusted net and the data fed put through a VPN to home base they’re functionally ghost cams without a location attached.

          Plus they can record to local SD, so if the server goes offline in the future they can work like a dashcam at least.

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              210 months ago

              Yeah, but if someone is going to that much effort to track down your feed (assuming it was outdoors to start with) then you’re probably under investigation for something.

    • @RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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      Here’s what I recommend: open source camera firmware if possible, local storage of recorded video on an open source system, firewall rules to block access to and from the Internet for all of the above. If you need “cloud” access to your cameras then set up a VPN to get to it behind the firewall.

      That’s my setup, minus the specifics.

    • @psud@lemmy.world
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      Because getting the same results is hard or expensive if you wanted to do it yourself.

      A security camera is easy. Reasonably secure view from anywhere is difficult. Notification of activity in view of the camera is harder. Internet to front door intercom is moderately difficult.

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    I guarantee you that this is more of a cost cutting measure rather than Amazon being altruistic. They just laid off tons of people, and this is within that same train of thought.

    • @Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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      • Hey Jeff, we don’t have enough staff to answer all these police requests we’re getting.

      • Alright, then don’t. Put out a press release, and get our Amazon™ ministry of truth to put a positive spin on it.

  • guyrocket
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    I was very aware of this “sharing” of footage when I bought my camera system and intentionally did not buy ring and other brands because I want to own that video. I went so far as to not connect my system to the internet which gives me less options (i.e. see it on my phone anytime) but sometimes privacy comes with a price.

      • guyrocket
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        You mean running my own VPN phone to house, right? Not a paid VPN.

        • @null@slrpnk.net
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          Yup, a simple Wireguard setup would work fine.

          I also like Tailscale, but unless you’re running it with Headscale, then technically they hold the keys.

          • capital
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            WireGuard server running on OpenWRT is 👌🏼

    • Monkey With A Shell
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      Are they still accessable from the local net, preferably with some auth even without the internet feed? That sounds like a pretty ideal thing to me. Recording and motion ssense starting…

      Really what I want is a simple cam that can dump a circular buffer to the NAS via a NFS/smb share and local net live view. Seems simple but yet rare.

      • Saik0
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        Frigate + HASS.

        All my cameras are accessed with Frigate, which stores everything on a NAS (400TB…). Since I can mount up a coral.ai I can do object detection and throw away the frames/recordings that have literally nothing going on. HASS fronts the whole UI for myself and my other users(wife/kids). Cameras don’t have access to the internet at all… Local access is sufficient to get it into the interfaces that I need it in.

  • @RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    I know Eufy has its issues, but I do really like that all my camera footage is stored in my home and not in the cloud.

    Their reputation is not good anymore, but I’m just glad all my footage isn’t on someone else’s computer.

    • @CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
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      I thought their reputation was tarnished explicitly due to uploading footage to the cloud despite claims otherwise. How can you be sure it isn’t uploading when their words mean nothing?

      • @RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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        The problem was unsecured connections when accessing your footage through their web portal.

        They’ve since fixed the issue, but they inform people that screenshots are held in the cloud for a limited time in order to serve certain types of push notifications.

        I may also be trying to cope with the fact that I bought an expensive system before learning about their issues.

  • Match!!
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    910 months ago

    it’ll no longer WHAT

    (just kidding, I was aware of this and am happy about the change, thanks for posting)

  • Ghostalmedia
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    How were cops able to access the video once they were given access. Isn’t that stuff E2EE? Is there a backdoor, or is it not always encrypted?

  • @psud@lemmy.world
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    Remember that Google not only cooperates with police, they will report users to the police for things their AI finds in that users photos or documents

    When they have done that in the past and police investigated the police found no crime was done, but Google deleted their account anyway. They lost their contacts list, their photos, all the spreadsheets and documents in their Google drive, their email account, all their passwords (and the ability to reset those passwords because of the loss of the email account). The guy also used Google for internet and phone, which also went away when Google accused him

    If you keep anything important on an online service, keep a backup offline (https://takeout.google.com/ for Google). Use a password manager that isn’t under control of a tech giant.

    If you back up everything to an online service, choose one that allows you to encrypt your data so they can’t use it against you