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Questions of mass surveillance aside, I always wonder how useful these things (motion detection when you're not home) actually are given how many American house
by nozzlegear 8mo ago
Questions of mass surveillance aside, I always wonder how useful these things (motion detection when you're not home) actually are given how many American households have dogs and cats.
- Night_Thastus 8mo agoIIRC most motion-sensing home devices are tuned to ignore pets, as best as they are able. They don't get it right 100% of the time though.
- autoexec 8mo agoI wouldn't be surprised if they can't tell the difference between a person and pet. Also wouldn't be surprised if they used that data to push pet food ads at you somewhere or just sold that info to a data broker.
- ranger_danger 7mo agoHow does having a dog or cat make this less useful? It detects motion, and it can still do that with pets. I'm assuming you really meant "detect human motion", which I don't think is a solvable problem at this point in time, at least with high accuracy.