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> but I assume I have no privacy (as does the law) when I am in a public space. I think we may need to slightly retweak our concept of public and private. The

by retrac 3y ago

> but I assume I have no privacy (as does the law) when I am in a public space. I think we may need to slightly retweak our concept of public and private. There are very few truly private spaces, from the perspective of an entity that can see every public space simultaneously.

seanmcdirmid 3y ago
We have nest cams and doorbell cams. We get very clear pictures of the person stealing packages off of our porch, but local rules (where I live) don’t allow us to apply facial recognition to those pictures to stop the madness.
- sillysaurusx 3y ago
  Try a bomb package. I forget what it’s called, but the moment they lift it a loud-ass alarm goes off and freaks them out. We had the same problem in Seattle and then my wife took care of it with one of those. They never came back. There’s one guy in particular that does a tremendous job making them. I can ask her for details if you’re interested.
  - seanmcdirmid 3y ago
    > We had the same problem in Seattle and then my wife took care of it with one of those. Ya, I'm in Ballard and I've thought about decoys and other sort of proactive ways of discouraging this. I wish we could wire up some action when cameras detect someone scoping out our house at 1AM in the morning (we live at the end of a long driveway so it is always someone checking our car door or something). But with all the data, well, it is the same people who are doing this (it only changes every few months or so), so it seems relatively straight forward for the police to do something about it. But there is no way to aggregate the data from all the cameras everyone has set up to do something about this.
- giardini 3y ago
  seanmcdirmid says " ...local rules (where I live) don’t allow us to apply facial recognition to those pictures to stop the madness." Most cases of "stealing packages" won't be investigated at all by the police. But insurance companies prefer that you report them to the police. And facial recognition isn't good enough for use in our legal system: https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/facial-recognition-not-legal-proof/ https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/facial-recognition-n...

by retrac 3y ago

seanmcdirmid 3y ago

We have nest cams and doorbell cams. We get very clear pictures of the person stealing packages off of our porch, but local rules (where I live) don’t allow us to apply facial recognition to those pictures to stop the madness.

sillysaurusx 3y ago
Try a bomb package. I forget what it’s called, but the moment they lift it a loud-ass alarm goes off and freaks them out. We had the same problem in Seattle and then my wife took care of it with one of those. They never came back. There’s one guy in particular that does a tremendous job making them. I can ask her for details if you’re interested.
- seanmcdirmid 3y ago
  > We had the same problem in Seattle and then my wife took care of it with one of those. Ya, I'm in Ballard and I've thought about decoys and other sort of proactive ways of discouraging this. I wish we could wire up some action when cameras detect someone scoping out our house at 1AM in the morning (we live at the end of a long driveway so it is always someone checking our car door or something). But with all the data, well, it is the same people who are doing this (it only changes every few months or so), so it seems relatively straight forward for the police to do something about it. But there is no way to aggregate the data from all the cameras everyone has set up to do something about this.
giardini 3y ago
seanmcdirmid says " ...local rules (where I live) don’t allow us to apply facial recognition to those pictures to stop the madness." Most cases of "stealing packages" won't be investigated at all by the police. But insurance companies prefer that you report them to the police. And facial recognition isn't good enough for use in our legal system: https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/facial-recognition-not-legal-proof/ https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/facial-recognition-n...