The privacy loophole in your doorbell

Re:The privacy loophole in your doorbell by Ralo on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @03:21PM (#35074230)

I host my own on-site and have had my security footage requested by police 4 different times. It's never a subpoena or demanding. Just some detectives will stop by and say they want to know which direction a vehicle went. They come inside, give me a USB stick and we copy it over.

I'm sure I could tell them to kick rocks, and they would have to write up a subpoena but there's no reason to do that.

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Re:The privacy loophole in your doorbell by iotku on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @03:30PM (#35074328)

>I'm sure I could tell them to kick rocks, and they would have to write up a subpoena but there's no reason to do that

Would they have the right to subpoena you though? Over mere suspicion that they think a vehicle at some point drove a certain direction?

Sure if it was a case involving me personally I'd probably be cooperative, but I don't fancy the idea of just letting LEOs just waltz into my property to "just to take a look"

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Re:The privacy loophole in your doorbell by Ralo on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @03:46PM (#35074500)

Legally, I'm not sure. I could say they aren't working, or they're fake etc.

My neighbor has fake cameras and he gets asked too but they just leave it at that and never press it.

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Re:The privacy loophole in your doorbell by giancarlostoro on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @03:31PM (#35074337)

Yeah I have zero issue doing this, it costs me nothing, and if it helps keep others accountable for their actions even better.

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Re:The privacy loophole in your doorbell by hsbauauvhabzb on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @04:08PM (#35074743)

I’m not saying don’t help the police but I think it’s worth acknowledging that point of view when applied en made is how we end up with policies attempting to back door encryption etc.

I think making sure some decision basis should be applied (there was a break in, commotion, and a car speed chase which ended here is much different to ‘we just wanna see if this car drove past’)

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Re:The privacy loophole in your doorbell by giancarlostoro on Thursday March 09, 2023 @07:37AM (#35080592)

That I do have a problem with. I want police physically asking me for my digital media, and I will gladly oblige most of the time.

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Re:The privacy loophole in your doorbell by TheHappyOddish on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:10AM (#35178334)

You plug unknown USBs into your devices on your network?

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