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Civil Liberties

TommyT139

(1,648 posts)

4. Holy shit.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:23 PM

Apr 23

Clearly we now need to use old fashioned door cams, with localized hard drives and I guess batteries.

Then only a targeted magnetic field would take it out, correct? (If anyone knows.)

By the way, ring cameras are a huge obeying-in-advance --- authorities in most places have an arrangement to get video from the company without needing to notify the owner.

Update: I am so what relieved to learn that the company has stopped this practice. However, I personally wouldn't trust that the police depts who use tech like Stingrays to not have a way to tap ring cams.
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1226942087/ring-will-no-longer-allow-police-to-request-users-doorbell-camera-footage