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Comment by smegmasamurai | Hacker News Reader

while walking my dog in my neighborhood i've noticed that every house has multiple cameras monitoring entryways, and almost always pointing at the street.

everyone wants to be safe that's for sure but if you really think about the fact that someone is always watching you when you're walking through your neighborhood it's creepy.

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As one who has four cameras pointing toward the street, I for one have better things to do than sit in my cave watching my multi-view camera setup for untoward things. Never give me a reason to rewind the recording, and you'll never be watched. I assume my neighbors are doing the same thing. Shit, I don't have time to edit my vacation videos, you think I got time to watch video of you walking your dog?

If it makes you feel any better, the video never leaves my local network. :-)

But a lot of the cameras that people install are Cloud-only (not possible to record locally)... And who knows what kind of software Amazon/Google/etc run on those videos. And what is in the cloud, I don't think that the Government needs a warrant to see it.

Well, yes and no. Presumably the low-tech version of this scenario was walking through your neighborhood and having your neighbors eyeball you themselves (say, after their dog barked at you). Now they've just handed the barking and eyeballing off to robots, who will record a 10-second clip of you, which the homeowners will never bother to view.

I don’t usually worry about my neighbors eyeballs being compromised and data extricated.

I'm curious. Is it less creepy if someone's looking out a window at the street, maybe drinking coffee?

Also security lights which pollute the night. Or worse in my old neighborhood motion sensitive lights.

Your neighbors don't have a monopoly on violence.

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