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Not OP, but if you want privacy conscious users to use your business, they will want to be able to host it themselves.

Ya I see your point. We have tried to take the privacy seriously from the beginning (and now realize we need to do more) but as far as not using the cloud at all, that would be a significant limitation on the type of inference that can be done locally and I think the benefits may outweigh the associated risks for many users/use cases...

I have a number of cloud enabled cameras now, but I’m also building my own system to keep everything local-only.

If you want to sell me an ML-based system, you’re welcome to train the models in the cloud, but they have to run on local-only assets. And you have to give me complete control over downloading new models periodically to a machine of my choice, and the updating my local devices.

Thanks for the feedback. What are you using the cameras for?

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