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I surveil my property, but only outside. I do it, not because I'm particularly concerned with knowing the comings and goings around me, but because I want evid
by tristor 3y ago
I surveil my property, but only outside. I do it, not because I'm particularly concerned with knowing the comings and goings around me, but because I want evidence in case anything ever happens I separately become aware of, like a break-in. I also want to know when a package is dropped off. That's about it. I go out of my way to minimize the privacy impact on neighbors, like having one of the cameras inside my garage but nothing for the driveway. I'm mostly concerned about covering ingress/egress points of my home from the outside, not necessarily what's happening anywhere beyond that.
Anyone who has ever experienced even petty property crime knows that the police are nearly useless and if you don't hand them all the information needed to recover your losses on a silver platter, they won't bother. The reason I invest in surveillance at all is to ensure I have something to cover my bases when I need to file an insurance claim and involve the police, but only when an /actual/ crime against my property or person has happened. I am not at all concerned about random people walking down the sidewalk and I can't imagine why I ever would be.