

I’ve never been comfortable with ring cameras specifically because even if it isn’t a tool to be harnessed by the state it’s still a tool to be harnessed by anyone holding a grudge. The vast majority of IoT users don’t know the basics of securing their network or their cameras. They connect things to the internet for the convenience and that’s it. And the cameras pick up the comings and goings of people who don’t really have the ability to not consent to having someone record when they leave their house or return to it. My neighbor doesn’t need that information. And why yes they could sit in their house and watch at all hours through the curtains, there would still be a physical limit to what they could see.
For the same reason I don’t want drones constantly surveiling my home, I don’t want camera footage I have no access to but that can be used against me by someone who doesn’t like how I rake the leaves in my driveway.
Anyone who’s been in a dispute with a neighbor who’s got a ring camera knows this struggle. And the advice you get, by and large is to get one of your own. No thanks.

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