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1 posted on 02/10/2026 7:43:29 PM PST by CathyWhite
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To: CathyWhite

Apparently.


2 posted on 02/10/2026 7:44:11 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: CathyWhite

No. But Google people can reconstruct the data code in the device itself.


3 posted on 02/10/2026 7:44:45 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: CathyWhite

One said Google only gets rid of it when it’s master storage gets too full-—a long time later.


4 posted on 02/10/2026 7:45:11 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: CathyWhite

To a great extent, it makes sense that the cameras are sending data to the company servers whether you’re subscribed or not. It’d be a lot of trouble on their end to have a system in which they’re constantly differentiating subscribers’ cameras from non-subscribers for purposes of data collection. Plus they’re gleaning using all kinds of valuable info from your cameras (for advertising purposes) that has nothing to do with whether or not you’re paying for a subscription. Easier just to collect everything.. and then collect subscription fees from those who want to pay to see it.


7 posted on 02/10/2026 7:49:11 PM PST by irishjuggler
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Yeah WHO KNEW..geez why am I paying 100 bucks a year to ring for


8 posted on 02/10/2026 7:51:11 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: CathyWhite

yes, kinda’....as I understand, the digital info (1s and 0s) of the video (but not video itself) is stored and can be re-compiled to visual form, which is why it took so long. Difficult, they say.


9 posted on 02/10/2026 7:51:47 PM PST by chiller ( Davy Crockett said:"Be sure you're right, then go ahead." I'll go ahead.)
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To: CathyWhite

No way back from the tech age.

2 things come to mind.

A gangster saying “I’ve decided I want to retire. I want to quit. I’ll never talk.”
“Nobody quits.”
(Movie Retirement Plan was based on that. Comedy.)


A young couple who knew someone rather high up in Scientology told me around 1971 or 1972 that the woman decided she wanted to leave and would not reveal the inner group knowledge. “No one this high in Scientology at this level can leave.” She said to the couple she was sort of on the run now and was still determined to leave Scientology.

The couple found out she was later in a hospital. Was found in a coma and doctors brought her out of it at the hospital later on and she was said to have evidence of psychological damage from some kind of mind drugs. Or was avoiding some kind of horrible event her mind could not tolerate so shut down. Like a person who goes on an LSD trip and never returns. She couldn’t communicate or show any signs of memory.


13 posted on 02/10/2026 7:56:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Fifteen post and you think things can still record when payment terms are concluded, then why have you not smashed that thing with 4 lbs hammer?


18 posted on 02/10/2026 8:06:15 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: CathyWhite

I was pretty surprised to learn that myself.

Did you read about that Ring “Search Party” software that can scan your neighborhood’s Ring cameras to search for a lost pet? That could have some interesting applications in the future. Everything is heading towards complete digital monitoring.


23 posted on 02/10/2026 8:14:32 PM PST by KittyKares
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SIM card is internal. It records everything until it rewrites over it. Usually about 200 hours of recordings. The service comes from data transmission to the host company’s server where you can access it. If you don’t like that, you can hook your cameras up to a DVR in your closet or attic.


29 posted on 02/10/2026 8:23:28 PM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: CathyWhite

There’s always the option to change your WiFi password at your router and not connect your camera to it? Or your fridge, your water heater, your thermostat?

Once people worried their phone might be tapped. Now they buy devices to spy on themselves and send that information to people who openly hate everything they believe and think.

Alternative method; dig up an old router or buy an old model for cheap. DON’T connect it to your Internet connection, but let it run isolated. Connect devices to it and if you need to operate them, disconnect your computer from the internet and connect to the isolated router.


35 posted on 02/10/2026 8:32:44 PM PST by No.6
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To: CathyWhite

Unless you disconnect it.


39 posted on 02/10/2026 8:40:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies with Democrats.)
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To: CathyWhite

Only if the FBI agrees to enhance it.


41 posted on 02/10/2026 8:43:55 PM PST by Kazan
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To: CathyWhite
Ring is using lost dogs to make the surveillance state adorable
53 posted on 02/10/2026 9:02:36 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: CathyWhite

I use a video doorbell made by Eufy. (yes that is the name) Local on device (SD card) storage only, no cloud BS like Nest.


72 posted on 02/11/2026 3:08:34 AM PST by DAC21
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big brother is watching you


75 posted on 02/11/2026 3:41:25 AM PST by SisterK (to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly)
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To: CathyWhite

Why would you’d you have Google Nest to begin with?


76 posted on 02/11/2026 3:41:45 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: CathyWhite

Testor’s black paint and a small brush.


77 posted on 02/11/2026 3:45:30 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: CathyWhite

Ring doorbell cams do the same thing - they just don’t make the data retrievable by you - or allow you to talk with someone if you aren’t at home when they come calling.
But they still notify you when there’s activity at your door and allow you to see the pic - or even a “live view” of what’s going on in front of the camera, without a subscription.


80 posted on 02/11/2026 5:09:47 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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