That means that as often as not, one unit owner’s lens will record all that happens in front of it all passersby, all visitors to the neighbor’s apartment and even brief glimpses into that apartment.Ī final example of a potentially unhappy newsbreak also comes out of the United States – this time out of the state of Florida.Ī pair of information security insiders (one of whom is a hacker) accuse Anker Tech, maker of eufy cameras, of logging people recorded despite the fact that Anker says it does not. If the co-op’s board approves it, up it goes. In another surprise for many owners of surveillance doorbells, this one also in the United States, The New York Times informed its New York City readers who own apartments in co-ops need no municipal blessing to put a camera on their unit’s door.

Ring executives agreed to do it, and the resident had no say in the matter. With the camel’s nose in the tent, the police asked the resident for more before Ring staff notified him that the company had been served a warrant to deliver any footage from all or most of his cameras that the police demanded.

The police last fall wanted information on one of his neighbors, suspected of being involved with illicit drugs, according to U.S. state of Ohio who cooperated with a police request for a short, discrete span video coverage from some of the 21 Ring cameras in and outside his home. What they probably are not getting is news of a man living in the U.S. This is a timely reminder for people like those in Scotland – just 36 so far – who are being given video doorbells, at least some of which will be Amazon’s Ring system, free of charge by the government.Īccording to reporting by the Glasgow Times, residents who fit a profile – vulnerable to crime and financial harm or door-to-door scams – are getting the hardware, software and data storage. The manuals may not alert everyone, however, to how they can lose control of their investment, antagonize their neighbors or inappropriately feed a vendor’s database of faces.

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