I sometimes jog and walk at night, especially when I had clients outside of my timezone. Some busybody reported one of their Ring videos of me walking past their house at night to the police, and for a while there I'd be stopped by beat cops for simply walking around my neighborhood.
It's a surreal feeling knowing that you're being surveilled by just leaving your home and walking around the block.
I'm pretty sure when I go for a walk (since WFH, mostly late at night) I show up on _hundreds_ of cameras, mostly business and traffic CCTV systems (it's an urban area). That doesn't bother me. It would very much bother me if my neighbours were reporting me to the police, though; that's a neighbour problem, not a camera problem.
So I replaced my ring with a more privacy protecting and social media-free alternative, because video doorbells are very convenient still.
Currently I’m experimenting with Frigate as my NVR for object identification and clip tracking.
> I live in a gated community with only one way in and out, and I'm alerted immediately if someone should be let through if they aren't on my regular list.
The whole tone of the article as I read it was Security & Privacy for me, not for thee (people in my community, my dogs, my hypothetical kids).