if anyone is interested in how this happens it's because when you use big corporate products you are giving up your data when you sign up for the apps.
they cloud your data, you give them access to it.
be smarter than that, run your own shit.
learn how to make your own, private/in-house home automation isn't that difficult.
a POE router, some POE cams, a raspberry pi or old laptop for the "server"...
...and don't use wifi in your security system, a $20 jammer shuts down all your cameras/sensors.
The issue is customers purchase and install doorbell cameras with the sole intention of monitoring their own doorway. They don't expect the company they are doing business with to then sell their camera feeds to local police departments and who the fuck knows who else.
The issue of photography is one of ownership. If you buy a camera, and you use it to take pictures or video, your assumption is you own that image or footage and nobody else has the rights to it.
I can take pictures of you from public, even if you're standing in private... because you cannot trespass the eyes.
however this is different... this is a mega corp hijacking your eyes and stealing the rights to the footage.
these companies aren't saying "hey here's the deal... we'll trade you cloud storage if we get to snoop into your private camera feeds"
they front it as a camera they charge you for, and a "service" they also charge you for.
...so you're overpaying them for a camera, then overpaying them to snoop on your camera feed.
if anyone is interested in how this happens it's because when you use big corporate products you are giving up your data when you sign up for the apps.
they cloud your data, you give them access to it.
be smarter than that, run your own shit.
learn how to make your own, private/in-house home automation isn't that difficult.
a POE router, some POE cams, a raspberry pi or old laptop for the "server"...
...and don't use wifi in your security system, a $20 jammer shuts down all your cameras/sensors.
The issue is customers purchase and install doorbell cameras with the sole intention of monitoring their own doorway. They don't expect the company they are doing business with to then sell their camera feeds to local police departments and who the fuck knows who else.
The issue of photography is one of ownership. If you buy a camera, and you use it to take pictures or video, your assumption is you own that image or footage and nobody else has the rights to it.
I can take pictures of you from public, even if you're standing in private... because you cannot trespass the eyes.
however this is different... this is a mega corp hijacking your eyes and stealing the rights to the footage.
these companies aren't saying "hey here's the deal... we'll trade you cloud storage if we get to snoop into your private camera feeds"
they front it as a camera they charge you for, and a "service" they also charge you for.
...so you're overpaying them for a camera, then overpaying them to snoop on your camera feed.
it's fucking retarded.