People are just now realizing that a mass network of always online cameras on most doors in your neighborhood is bad, actually?
Yep. First thing I thought was, “They’re going to let ICE use this to track people down.” Hell, they could already be doing that.
They’ve left the door open to law enforcement for years. This is not new.
This article is from 2019 http://archive.today/kYbQV
…and if you believe that police really had to ask, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya.
If the footage has left your premises and stored on someone else’s machine (the cloud), it’s now out of your control. It could be accessed by an employee, accidentally deleted/tampered, or handed over to a government entity without your knowledge. This applies to any brand of security cameras as well as file storage providers and even VPNs
When motivated enough, governments can and do seize servers from data centers. A lot of the time companies rent them, so these vendors can’t even directly guarantee their physical safety
I’m so mad they’ve switched from their “protect the children” line for Boomers, to “protect the pets” for us Millennials.
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Save the dogs, the new blanket for surveillance. Great.
We already have mass surveillance. For decades.
Could be? Soon? People they’re already doing it! Do people really not think so?
