1y ago

Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users | EFF

www.eff.org Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users

This is a victory in a long fight, not just against blanket police surveillance, but also against a culture in which private, for-profit companies build special tools to allow law enforcement to more easily access companies’ users and their data—all of which ultimately undermine their customers’ tru...

Privacy @lemmy.world

ZeroCool @slrpnk.net

1y ago

Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users | EFF

www.eff.org /deeplinks/2024/01/ring-announces-it-will-no-longer-facilitate-police-requests-footage-users

40 2

THE POLICE PROBLEM @lemmy.world

yokonzo @lemmy.world

1y ago

Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users

www.eff.org /deeplinks/2024/01/ring-announces-it-will-no-longer-facilitate-police-requests-footage-users

89 8

Technology @kbin.social

xNIBx @kbin.social

1y ago

Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users

www.eff.org /deeplinks/2024/01/ring-announces-it-will-no-longer-facilitate-police-requests-footage-users

12 3

You're viewing a single thread.

56 comments

I was very aware of this "sharing" of footage when I bought my camera system and intentionally did not buy ring and other brands because I want to own that video. I went so far as to not connect my system to the internet which gives me less options (i.e. see it on my phone anytime) but sometimes privacy comes with a price.
- A VPN can take care of that last part.
  
  You mean running my own VPN phone to house, right? Not a paid VPN.
  
  Yup, a simple Wireguard setup would work fine.
  I also like Tailscale, but unless you're running it with Headscale, then technically they hold the keys.
  
  WireGuard server running on OpenWRT is 👌🏼
  
  Some paid VPNs can handle it as well, but yeah you likely want something self hosted.
- Are they still accessable from the local net, preferably with some auth even without the internet feed? That sounds like a pretty ideal thing to me. Recording and motion ssense starting...
  Really what I want is a simple cam that can dump a circular buffer to the NAS via a NFS/smb share and local net live view. Seems simple but yet rare.
  
  Frigate + HASS.
  All my cameras are accessed with Frigate, which stores everything on a NAS (400TB...). Since I can mount up a coral.ai I can do object detection and throw away the frames/recordings that have literally nothing going on. HASS fronts the whole UI for myself and my other users(wife/kids). Cameras don't have access to the internet at all... Local access is sufficient to get it into the interfaces that I need it in.

56 comments