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Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users | EFF (www.eff.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I was very aware of this "sharing" of footage when I bought my camera system and intentionally did not buy ring and other brands because I want to own that video. I went so far as to not connect my system to the internet which gives me less options (i.e. see it on my phone anytime) but sometimes privacy comes with a price.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A VPN can take care of that last part.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You mean running my own VPN phone to house, right? Not a paid VPN.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yup, a simple Wireguard setup would work fine.

I also like Tailscale, but unless you're running it with Headscale, then technically they hold the keys.

[–] capital 1 points 10 months ago

WireGuard server running on OpenWRT is 👌🏼

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Some paid VPNs can handle it as well, but yeah you likely want something self hosted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are they still accessable from the local net, preferably with some auth even without the internet feed? That sounds like a pretty ideal thing to me. Recording and motion ssense starting...

Really what I want is a simple cam that can dump a circular buffer to the NAS via a NFS/smb share and local net live view. Seems simple but yet rare.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Frigate + HASS.

All my cameras are accessed with Frigate, which stores everything on a NAS (400TB...). Since I can mount up a coral.ai I can do object detection and throw away the frames/recordings that have literally nothing going on. HASS fronts the whole UI for myself and my other users(wife/kids). Cameras don't have access to the internet at all... Local access is sufficient to get it into the interfaces that I need it in.