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So you gave up everyone's privacy for no benefit at all?
by ooterness 8mo ago
So you gave up everyone's privacy for no benefit at all?
- Omatic810 8mo agoI don't think a Costco parking lot provides any reasonable expectation of privacy to be given up.
- DangitBobby 8mo agoI think there should be more than one standard. "Reasonable expectation of privacy" is usually used to dismiss people's concerns about constant surveillance. Let's stop being complicit in public surveillance.
- stalfosknight 8mo agoYou do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a public space and it is absurd to suggest that people should/could.
- DangitBobby 8mo agoWere you replying to someone else?
- SkyPuncher 8mo agoNot sure, the point. People generally aren't complaining about home owners mounting cameras for themselves (the car is no different). A 3rd party combining the interconnected nature of their system into a holistic system with sweeping coverage is much different than a single person figuring out who hit their car.
- seanmcdirmid 8mo agoIt would be nice for neighborhood cameras to timely alert neighbors when a porch pirate was on the prowl in their neighborhood. I get the privacy implications, but after having a few packages stolen one might just not care anymore. Since police absolutely have no care about porch pirates where i live, I rig my camera to turn up a siren for 10 seconds (using a homekit power plug) when it sees someone near my townhome after 11PM (this is enough to usually scare them off to easier pickings). It wouldn't be so bad if the kids bedroom wasn't on the first floor and we are on the third, but it is what it is. At least its only really bad in late spring and summer, the only time when Seattle's long rainy season comes in useful. Its too bad that I can't bike in Seattle anymore, the theft situation just makes it too unbearable (and probably why you see fewer people biking these days even though they are dumping lots of money into biking infrastructure). Think what we could do with cameras like we've done with apple tags to ramp down bike theft (then again, police don't care, and people aren't ready to go vigilante here).
- alex43578 8mo agoThe privacy of being in a parking lot, surrounded by a dozen other cameras from a myriad of businesses, in public?
- fn-mote 8mo agoJust wait until you go to a Walmart and they have a portable surveillance tower set up in the parking lot.
- seanmcdirmid 8mo agoproper blame assignment is its own reward, at least the offending party's insurance rates increased (assuming they had insurance).
- RegnisGnaw 8mo agoAnd their insurance paid for the whole repair and car rental. No deductible for me and my increase on my insurance.
- 4d4m 8mo agoadmission is tough
- beAbU 8mo agoYou can't have privacy when out in public!! No-one's privacy was given up here because no-one here was engaging in private acts, since all of them were in the public.
- RegnisGnaw 8mo agoTheir insurance paid for the repairs to my car and a rental for the duration. Otherwise I would've had to go through my insurance ($1000 deductible) + possible rise in rates.