How internet-connected surveillance devices like Amazon’s Ring have lax security practices, encourage spying, and fuel racial biases.

Ring Doorbell Privacy Concerns: Addressing Doorbell Camera Surveillance Fears?

Summary: Ring doorbells raise privacy concerns beyond the owner, capturing neighbors, visitors, and passersby without consent. Issues include cloud storage, shared footage, facial recognition, and a 2023 FTC settlement over employee access. Responsible use requires careful positioning, strong security, and clear footage-sharing policies. Ring doorbells can improve awareness around a home or business, but they…

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Understanding storage requirements is key to making the most of your video surveillance system and ensuring the safety of footage.

How Much Video Storage Is Enough?

One of the major benefits of having a video surveillance system on your business or personal property is knowing that should a crime ever occur, you will have indisputable video evidence of it. However, simply capturing footage of a break-in, theft, or act of vandalism is not enough. You also have to safely store it.…

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