now they do it in secret
Dhs Just take the data from the cloud providers
Plus remember that all data broker information, all of it, is bought by the feds that distribute it to agencies.
Even before that, the NSA revelations showed that the feds would populate their ill gotten information, and half baked conclusions thereof, down to local police in their law enforcement information networks. Not attributed of course, idk how they do it exactly it's pretty secretive we could use some more investigative reporting on LEINs.
But the 4th amendment is in effect dead. Police just use private interests to violate your privacy without warrants or judicial scrutiny, and then parallel construct a legal way of finding that information if they want to use it in court. Judges are chosen to pretend to believe them, which is why the police are so arrogant they lie about executing Pretti and Good despite multiple videos contradicting their testimonies.
They'll just do it under the table. Cancel your plans and get something you can record locally and stream yourself. Look into Amcrest with Hubitat or similar setup.
Frigate is good too
Just to add on to this:
Frigate is a open source solution that'll take any RTSP capable camera and give it super powers. All those AI features the companies like Ring and Nest advertise, but locally. Sure, there is a learning curve - but it isn't atrocious. And you'd need local hardware, but if you have a PC you could throw a $110 Coral USB Accelerator and get all this.
Wow they must have really taken a sales dive. Nice.
For now.
Aside from direct vandalism or persuasion, is there something I can do to combat the Ring cameras on nearly every door in my neighborhood?
I can't think of anything, that's kind of the options isn't it? Buy your neighbors switchbots or reolink cameras as a gift? Them switching by choice is persuasion... forcing them to switch without giving them a choice is vandalism. I can't fathom a 3rd category, unless you can like... sue the hell out of amazon and force a recall, but pretty sure the legal system doesn't work that way.
Build a giant animatronic ring doorbell camera with binoculars that peers into your neighbors homes, wearing a "Hello, my name is Big Brother" sticker?
Aside from asking nicely or doing it yourself, uhhh... do it with magic?
A little drone with a laser?
Didn't ring already prove they were permanently recording and storing the data from every ring camera even if the person that bought it doesn't pay for a subscription?
The conspiracy theorists joking/lamenting about how seemingly everyone decided that buying a listening device to put in every room was fine because it had a name, and not long after, the same company known for exploiting its warehouse workers, union busting and general privacy violations brought out the 'build your own panopticon' kit.
Riiiiight 😉😉
Security cameras connected to the Internet are just…a terrible idea.
Ring tried to unshow their hand*
... You can't unring that bell.
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