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FBI worried doorbell cameras could tip owners off to police searches

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FBI should be worried about how the police is infiltrated by white supremacists [1] and their tendency to shoot people for no reason, I'd say that's a much higher security risk.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-i...

I suspect Ring and other doorbell cameras are making the job of the police far easier on the whole than the little "inconvenience" mentioned in this article.

With the access police departments have to ring door bells I'm sure they can remotely turn them off or prevent them from alarming the owners. /s

These things are a privacy nightmare. I'm glad I live in a country where private surveillance of the public is illegal.

Germany?

So only the state has that power? No thanks.

How does that work?

Are you allowed to take photos in a public area? What about video?

How do they differentiate between that and a camera mounted to your house?

So you can't have security cameras unless they only point at your own property?

People at the FBI are paid to sit around and write reports on the obvious: cameras on property observe people who encroach upon that property.

Next they will commission a report concluding that door locks hinder no-knock searches.

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7047196-Video-Doorbel...

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7047194-LES-FBI-Techn...

Wait...they wanted warrentless access to these devices to watch us, for our protection and all...but they found out it could work both ways it's a problem?

Shocked, am I...

I would think a significant section of people who worry about the FBI knocking, that have normal security cameras.

I always wondered why Tony Soprano didn’t have surveillance cameras everywhere. His most clever opsec was “stand by this loud machine when talking“.

So you have cameras on your house. Are you watching them 24/7? No, otherwise you wouldn't be able to do anything else. Systems like Ring and even the software for full camera systems can notify you when they detect something. Great, too late as the coppers are already beating on the door. I'm not sure how effect that is.

I mean if you have large sums of money it would be worth it to hire someone to watch cameras, right? Isn't that what security guards do?

Better money would be spent on a police informant that could tell you a raid was being planned. Even if you have 24/7 monitored by humans video feeds, by the time the raid was visible in the video feed, they are already there. That's my point

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