Shouldn't this be up to the owner of the camera? I don't see any reason why you wouldn't want to report certain activity to police. Let's say a series of cameras in a neighborhood caught a man looking into windows. And the last camera caught the same man breaking into a residence. Would not the other videos help put a criminal in jail? And that's bad? How? The writer at wired doesn't own a home, lives with their parents, or never had someone try to victimize them where they lay their head. Theirs is a naive look at the world though an ideological lense. Something that doesn't exist in the real world, and a view that gets real people hurt precisely because it enables criminal behavior. If we, as a society, tolerated crime less, then we'd have less of it.