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the problem with these fucking things is that you can't really opt out. even if you don't buy your own, some neighbours will happily buy and install the big brother to watch you from their porch and there is very little you can do about it.
same as you can't really escape the google, even if you don't use single one of their service, there is always the other part to any communication you are having...
Exactly. I never used Gemini or gave sensitive information/photos to major AI companies, but my family has, including photos of me.
I've never had a Facebook account. I've always hated when people posted pictures I was in and said who I was.
Meta algorithms have ghost profiles, including dead people or babies not yet born
In Belgium, it is legally required to put a sign up if you have cameras, you can't point them at a place including public properties IIRC, and you can force them via the local government to move the camera if they are pointing at your property (at least in theory).
Lasers. Blue lasers are what you can do. https://www.reddit.com/r/Ring/comments/wqxkdq/what_is_this_person_doing_to_my_camera/ (hate to link to reddit but it is a good demo)
And DEAUTH attacks. Because they're all dumb wifi cameras. You can keep them jammed and destroy them while they can't upload footage.
it is similar here in czechia, at least in theory, but the theory will always differ from real life.
you first have to know there is a camera to identify the problem, then if you are in doubt... i don't know, sue them to prove that camera does not capture your property?
it would take few years, because the justice system here works on geological scales. and before you would get any reasonable result, billion other cameras would pop up meantime.
Most of them you can disable with DEAUTHs. Wifi cameras are a stupid concept.
Break it. Do crime. Do it.
break it and be recorded on their camera breaking it. that will end well.
Tell me without telling me that you've never needed the police to do anything useful.
Are you kidding? Police LOVE investigating petty vandalism. Almost as much as DAs love prosecuting them! Top priority. Clearance rates are very high. You may have to call them 2 or three times before sleepy fat ass deputy (who is too stupid to do anything else) will come and take down half a report but trust me, they really do care, and will stop at nothing to achieve justice for your spy gadget.
Half the prison population in US are people who drew swastikas on Teslas.
Fear not! Your doorbell will be avenged!
You can’t put a mask on and cover your distinguishing features? Weak
DEAUTH for a couple days and shoot the lens with a laser. They'll never figure it out.
IR LEDs don't work on these like with some CCTV cameras, right?
At close range they'll blind them, but the tech is getting better these days.
What knocks out the camera is the auto exposure, they used to just take the whole sensors input, average it and set the brightness against that value. A lot of the newer surveillance cameras will just ignore the overall and compensate pixel per pixel.
Project farm looked at a bunch
https://youtu.be/j0GZKXWf3vg?t=749