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> Taken from the surveillance camera of the gas station where you bought a lottery ticket like a chump. Of all the things, this is the least I'm worried about
by chime 12y ago
> Taken from the surveillance camera of the gas station where you bought a lottery ticket like a chump.
Of all the things, this is the least I'm worried about in the long term. Storing video is expensive and rarely makes sense for businesses beyond 30 days. I setup a 64 camera network for a client and 20TB of space stores about 15 days of footage. Sure, disk space is cheap but at over 1TB/day, 500TB/year would cost about $15k in just HDD and triple that if you want redundancy with proper maintenance. I'd find it hard to justify the ROI on everlasting storage unless the store's selling diamonds.
Even for a small mom and pop store with just 6-8 cams, it can be $2k/year just in cost of storage. Pretty sure they would rather spend that on inventory, marketing, or staffing.
- eghri 12y agoI agree with your argument now, but space is constantly getting cheaper so this won't hold true for long. Also, there is nothing stopping people today from reducing the resolution, dropping X% of frames, compressing, or any number of tricks to make the storage cost/value ratio much more appealing.
- mason240 12y agoMaking cops wear body cameras is the big fad issue right now, but it's kind of weird how no one is pointing out the public access to all police cam footage means ever interaction you have with the police will available to the public forever.
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- maxerickson 12y agoI regularly advocate for giving them discretion as to when the camera is on. Of course the rest of the process should be designed so that they want to turn them on in charged situations, but there's lots of situations where taking the choice away from them is going to be harmful.
- dredmorbius 12y agoYou're being far too literal in reading this as just video storage. It's more than that. The key is that selective editing of any narrative can create any story you want. That, and costs of storage are falling tremendously. I remember when the idea of having more than a few minutes of video on disk storage (I had 2-6 GB at the time) was ludicrous. I've now got 88 GB of video, the bulk of it YouTube or Vimeo content I've saved, largely lectures and documentaries. Being able to review that on demand is quite useful.