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More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence (www.themarshallproject.org)
submitted 1 year ago by gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Private security footage is nothing new to criminal investigations, but two factors are rapidly changing the landscape: huge growth in the number of devices with cameras, and the fact that footage usually lands in a cloud server, rather than on a tape.

When a third party maintains the footage on the cloud, it gives police the ability to seek the images directly from the storage company, rather than from the resident or business owner who controls the recording device. In 2022, the Ring security company, owned by Amazon, admitted that it had provided audio and video from customer doorbells to police without user consent at least 11 times. The company cited “exigent circumstances.”

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240116132800/https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/01/13/police-video-surveillance-california

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

The perks of being an electronic security installer and wiring up your own house with a real system with a dozen PoE cameras and a local NVR under your control only...😋

Stay away from the Harry Homeowner cloud-connected lick-and-stick BestBuy bullshit.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Do you have particular recommendations? I somehow landed on Reolink as the option I'm going to buy in a few months

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Probably avoid anything by Hikvision if you don't want to risk having Chinese backdoors in it. My own system is just a hodgepodge of different used cams I pulled off job sites. Just need to make sure they can do ONVIF and they should be compatible with any NVR out there.

[–] soysauce@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

If the cameras are on a private network with no routes to the Internet a backdoor doesn't really matter. I would still avoid untrustworthy manufacturers.

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