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I feel the exact same way. Although, I got a remobell.

> police don't have default access to it, I'm cool.

That's the only thing that concerns me. Why are people up in arms about this? I mean if it deters people from stealing from you, that's a good thing also it's not pointed inside your house.



> That's the only thing that concerns me. Why are people up in arms about this? I mean if it deters people from stealing from you, that's a good thing also it's not pointed inside your house.

Because a citizen walking on the sidewalk doesn't consent to being captured with cameras everywhere they go. We know Amazon and other providers are including face recognition (and I wouldn't be surprised if they are working on other methods like gait recognition, tracking movement across cameras that are near each other etc).

Getting caught in the background of someone's selfie is one thing, mass surveillance by a mega-company and collaboration with the government/police is another. I should be able to go out in public without being tracked without my consent.

That's not even getting into data leaks, police corruption, and NSA style surveillance programs that this footage is inevitably going to get caught up in.


> Because a citizen walking on the sidewalk doesn't consent to being captured with cameras everywhere they go.

In the US they do. They're in public. It's photographers rights.




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