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Nest cameras used to have a user toggle to enable/disable the camera LED; not the worst reason I can think of.

• mschuster91 1mo ago
  Yeah, and then came people hiding cameras in places where you clearly did not want a camera to be. Bathrooms in public areas, hotels, workplaces and AirBnBs are a much too common issue, it's like daily news some creep gets busted for running cameras.
  • Marsymars 1mo ago
    Yeah, my implication was just that the worst thing I could think of were cameras where the owners don't realize that some third-party is recording them. LEDs won't stop creeps — the camera owner can always disable LEDs with a bit of electrical tape.
    • mschuster91 1mo ago
      > Yeah, my implication was just that the worst thing I could think of were cameras where the owners don't realize that some third-party is recording them. At the point we are in time... honestly, I don't expect this thing called "privacy" any more. And I'm, notably, German. Glassholes, camera surveillance everywhere, our police is more and more turning into the rabid hellscape that is American police with far-right authoritarians at the helm and more and more forces joining up with Palantir or working on a European alternative. I'm dead sure that at least law enforcement plus dedicated individuals with access to ad data brokers can work out precisely when I had a wank and what I wanked to, now there being a video of me wanking would only be the icing on the cake. > LEDs won't stop creeps — the camera owner can always disable LEDs with a bit of electrical tape. Many even forget about that piece of opsec, which is why they get caught in the first place, eventually the tape falls off.