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None of these agencies get your video data without your consent. The feature was designed so they have an easy way to present you the request for footage.

Unfortunately a portion of the information getting circulated is the complete opposite.


> None of these agencies get your video data without your consent.

You certainly can't be sure of that. In fact, it is almost certain that these companies provide the data they collect to the police and government agencies data, often without warrant.


I'm certain they get your video data without your consent when the agencies have a warrant. I think it's very likely that they won't necessarily require a warrant, either.

Consider the Nancy Guthrie case. The owner wasn't around to give consent, and the camera didn't even have an active subscription, yet law enforcement was still able to recover video from Google's systems.

The only way it could be as you say is if the video was only stored locally without any remote access, or if the video was encrypted with keys only you control. Google clearly is not doing this. I really, really doubt Amazon is.


Personally I store locally with a unifi system. Can’t they collect that footage with a warrant too?

Depends on how good your security is. They can seize your equipment but they can’t force you to provide your password.

Doesn't matter, unless you're an asshole you shouldn't continue to give money to companies like Ring that partner with ICE or Flock.

I'm not an asshole so I cancelled my subscription.


Yes, for now. But ultimately you have no control or say over these features because you do not own the software or data. You must have pure blind faith that this will be the way it continues to work.

If other people are cool with doing things without any reasons and based on pure trust, that's on them. But that's not gonna be me


If you don't own the entire stack you don't decide who does what with the data.

Someone called my method “chaotic neutral”

I try to start most days on my machine by closing almost everything I had opened the previous day.


We have variable speed limits on parts of our roads. People commonly exceed the stated limit by 20+ mph since they're used to "full speed" and ignore the instances where it's being reduced.

I welcome our future robot car overlords where all of these problems should in theory be greatly reduced or eliminated entirely.


Where I live it is impossible to exceed the variable speed limit because every other car on the road is doing it.

I agree, a full network of self driving cars which can all move together in a chain will eliminate this problem. I just hope I live long enough to see it.


Rolled oats tend to give me anxiety, notice the issue with other large amounts of carbs in the AM. Anybody else have that issue? I figure it's a glycemic index issue. I don't believe the issue was present with steelcut.


i cant eat carbs in the morning either, i usually wait til afternoon/early evening before taking carbs (and thats same for rolled oatmeal; sometimes i'll have that for dinner actually)

i should try steel-cut someday...


Getting an e-bike has got me out getting exercise way more than a regular bike ever did. Being able to dial my effort up and down pushes me further, quite literally in distance and fitness goals. I'm by no means fit and almost did a 5 hour 40 mile ride one day. I completely used up the battery in that time, my legs were cooked from the effort. I would have never attempted something like that on a regular bike unless I was fit.


Can confirm. HVAC https://imgur.com/a/yI2AX6D


I thought it was interesting to see this around late 2023. Walmart had said the noticed a reduction in cart spend by those filling GLP1 prescriptions at their pharmacy.


I'd probably think people getting bills for hundreds in the mail is a good catalyst to take action on a speed camera. A camera that is used for serious crimes, not speeding, is not going to be nearly as inflammatory.


>>>reports the data to a third party who can share it with anyone they want.

This is a pervasive piece of misinformation. False statements only discredit you and others who choose to repeat it.


You do not want local govt each building their own “secure” system.


> You do not want local govt each building their own “secure” system

I really do. A centralised, insecure [1] database could lead to America losing a war.

A distributed system of low-reliability nodes is more robust than a centralised system that's very reliable. "ARPANET," after all "was built to explore technologies related to building a military command-and-control network that could survive a nuclear attack." (That's not what it wound up becoming.)

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/lawmakers-say-stolen-polic...


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