Legislature Building? Around Courthouses? Banks? Public Transit? Schools? Traffic? On the Streets? Should they exist in all of these places, only some of them, or none at all? What’s your opinion?
(Btw: I remember my highschool had them, felt kinda creepy since I distrust the school admin, like… even the other places with cameras didn’t feel as weird)
I think a good way to enable beneficial use while minimizing the possibility of harm is to avoid cloud based services as much as possible. Especially for residential use. If companies made a convenient method of plug and play self hosted cameras, it’d be a hit. But you cant beat the convenienceand price of another mega corp cheap cloud based security camera
I like the idea but I won’t rate it as likely. ‘Plug n play’ and ‘self-hosted’ are generally not compatible concepts, especially for consumer-type users, much less with ‘affordable’ tossed into the mix. Even just self-hosted by itself is a bit of a reach for most people.
Perhaps self hosted wasn’t the right term. What I was going for was locally hosted. It woulf be a single device with OS and drives all installed. It would not be affordable, but it’s the only way to make it convenient
Ah, okay. I see now. I’ve seen things that were essentially that, easy to set up DVR/NVRs for use with compatible cameras.
I still doubt its usefulness for residences though. It won’t prevent you from being a victim any better than dummy cameras and a fake security system sign. Its value as an evidentiary tool is based on your local police, so everyone’s experience will vary there.
If I understand correctly, you’re saying you wouldn’t be able to catch them live? I understood basically all cameras to be primarily for evidence. There would be a level of deterence to some extent, but the cameras themselves wouldn’t physically stop a break in. Even if you got a notification and the police came, theres still nothing stopping them from getting away before the police get there. My understanding of the average persons camera setup is not to have a 3rd party monitoring service call the police, or for them to be able to call the police, but rather to have footage of the event.