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I need help advocating for privacy in my HOA, which wants to set up cameras in common areas (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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A new neighbor moved in and is really advocating for them, but I think most people in the HOA are split. It's come up after some recent thefts after someone left a garage door open. I'm thinking of organizing my arguments like this:

  1. Even with a camera capturing a thief's face, police are unlikely to actually catch the person or retreive the stolen property.
  2. Invasion of personal privacy, I don't like being tracked and my whereabouts being monitored
  3. Surrendering biometric data without my consent
  4. Police / ICE using the data without permission to harass our residents

How does this sound? It's so exhausting fighting against this. Does anyone have any other good points or articles that can provide support? Many thanks in advance

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[โ€“] NaibofTabr 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

IP cameras here that have local access only

This is the right way.

No proprietary SaaS portals, no cloud uploads, no apps, no external network links.

Hopefully the local connections are encrypted and the devices on the network are segmented into VLANs, otherwise anyone on the local network could just watch the video stream.

[โ€“] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Honestly have not bothered too much on the internal security side. Everything is in a melting pot on the same subnet, with pfsense managing what's allowed out. At the very least, the cams and any other accessible internal devices do not run default/duplicated credentials.

Only two users on the network, and the occasional trusted guest. I don't see the need to go further quite yet.