> because i don't care who can look at my front lawn
This is extremely selfish. What about your neighbors who walk/drive by your front lawn? You're doing your neighborhood a surveillance disservice.
This is extremely selfish. What about your neighbors who walk/drive by your front lawn? You're doing your neighborhood a surveillance disservice.
As for people walking or driving by, they are in public and have zero expectation of privacy. I live in a school zone with a high school of 3500 kids across the street, most walk home. No one would never believe in a million years the crap they do to my lawn and the neighbors. They throw trash in my lawn, leave soda cans and bottles at the end of my driveway so I literally have to either stop in the street and move them or run them over getting into the driveway. They throw things in the back of a pickup truck in my driveway. They do this to all 12 houses on my street. It is nice to have footage in case ANY of this results in criminal damages. And it is legal.
So if that is selfish, then I am cool with that.
The issue I have is when the property owner isn't told who has access to the resulting still images or video stream, or is actively deceived about it. I'd be reluctant to use a Ring camera at my front door for that reason, and there's no way on Earth I'd install anything like that inside my home.
See, that's the idea behind the word "public." Nobody has to ask user lm28469 on Hacker News for permission to take photos in public.
This is a good thing.
And these are not good things. Both communal and private interests end up worse off in the long run with laws like these.
1: https://www.asmp.org/copyright-tutorial/photos-public-buildi...
most folks (especially us americans) accept personal propertly rights implicitly, so there's no need to vigorously defend them, especially when that defense implies caring only about yourself and not others.