The privacy loophole in your doorbell

Re:The privacy loophole in your doorbell by ajross on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @07:36PM (#35076798)

I'm in my 50's, FWIW. For me the defining characteristics of whether I embrace tech is whether it helps me do things I'm already doing or whether it represents a new activity I'm supposed to engage in. Resistance to the latter is, indeed, getting stiffer and stiffer as I age. I don't TikTok, I don't Instagram, I mostly just don't understand the culture. Alexa never did it for me as I'm almost never far from a keyboard. Obviously I'm way out of the market demo for Bumble. Those aren't my thing and probably never will be.

But I still have a front door to interact with the rest of society, and automating (even partially) my interaction with all the junk and people that need to use it straight up saves me time. It's great.

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Re:The privacy loophole in your doorbell by batiudrami on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @08:07PM (#35077076)

I am only in my mid 30s; but I feel like this smart home stuff might have excited me 15 years ago when now it doesn’t.

The doorbell and security camera stuff do seem to be a cultural difference between the US and where I live though; I don’t have strangers routinely come to my front door and don’t really have security concerns that aren’t solved by locking my front door.

A couple of my friends have smart doorbells but none that I know of use security cameras at home.

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Re:The privacy loophole in your doorbell by blitzar on Thursday March 09, 2023 @05:29AM (#35079939)

Smart doorbells are the (currently) acceptible version of a constanly twitching lace curtain.

curtain twitcher

someone who is very interested in what their neighbours (= people who live near them) are doing and tries to find out by looking out of the window without being seen:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/curtain-...

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