• crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    …and do they sell data, including video, to law enforcement and insurance?

    Sincerely, A person who recently was in a fender bender and was not surprised at all when Progressive shared “incident footage” from a Ring camera across the street at a location completely unrelated to the fender bender

    (They ARE selling your data, folks. NEVER trust big tech to act in your best interest)

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      10 days ago

      I stopped my Ring subscription but kept the doorbell camera.

      It wasn’t until a year later when I was moving and the house was almost completely empty (still had internet/wifi setup) and I looked at the wifi app and saw that the ring doorbell still had significant data usage.

      They were clearly still capturing my doorbell video.

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      10 days ago

      Umm… that could have just been the other driver asking the person for their footage from the camera they saw.

      Not everything is a conspiracy dude, that’s commonly done after any incident lmfao.

      I have cameras and plenty of people have asked me for random footage for thefts and collisions, none being a company or insurance, always the person affected…

      Edit, sorry I guess once the police did, but still there’s nothing odd or weird about what happened to you.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    It may not require a subscription fee, but that’s really only a minor concern.

    Having my video surveillance be uploaded to a cloud service and having to use some proprietary app to use my device is the real problems.

    If you want security cameras, look for boring Power over Ethernet cameras that have an RTSP output. They connect to your network and provide a video stream out a specific port. Then you can plug that into whatever FOSS network video recording system you’re using (Zone Minder or Frigate) and then you can access it like you access any other thing on your local network.

    Never goes to a cloud, never leaves your house.