[goodnesswins]

I read this as Private Citizens choosing to ARM their properties with Cameras...if it prevents a crime or catches the criminal, I see no problem with it...altho I don’t like the fact that our society has a large group of individuals who are immoral....causing the desire to have cameras. (NOTE: We do not have cameras around our home.)

[KrisKrinkle]

Maybe we can get the police to buy security cameras and give them to us to install on our property.

[quasimodo_79]

First thing I did moving in my new place was place cameras everywhere. When you’ve been robbed in your own home at gun point, placing threatening signs and cameras all around is the first thing you do.

OK, the first thing you do is make sure you’re armed, but that’s the second thing you do.

No shame in that game.

[antidisestablishment]

Nest (Camera in article) Privacy Statement:

"For legal reasons: We will share personal information with third parties if we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to (i) meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable government request; (ii) enforce Nest policies or contracts, including investigation of potential violations; (iii) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (iv) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Nest, our users or the public as required or permitted by law."

What's really great about these companies maintaining your data is they are free to share it without worrying about those pesky Constitutional rights.

I know, I know, none of you would ever break the law, even if that means not reading your Bibles because of the hate speech contained therein...

[Elsie]

When the day comes that we are REQUIRED to allow police etal access to all of our home cameras; THEN we'll have a problem.

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"The telescreen recieved and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it;

moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.

 

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.

How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.

It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to.

 

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

-1984, Book 1, Chapter One, George Orwell

 

 

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Alexis.  Turn on the coffee maker.

 

 

HAL; open the pod bay doors.