This article was co-published with Afrola. This series was made possible thanks to the support of the Pulitzer Center AI responsibility network.
As doorbell cameras have become important in many regions of the country, moral puzzles also have moral puzzles to find out if people should use them. At a time when the police can receive email notifications on the images of the camera downloaded on the neighbors of the social media application, the markings has set up this confidentiality of data confidentiality to help people who wish more control over their data and their personal information, while helping them to protect their porch.
Wait, what are the moral puzzles?
Although each camera system has had its fair share of scandals, pirates who take control of user cameras to the police potentially access to images without consent, the aggressive marketing of Ring to enlist the organizations of application of the law to the social platform of the neighbors has triggered enough ethical questions for certain publications to stop recommending the brand of popular door.
More than 2,600 police and fire services have forged partnerships with Amazon's Ring Network to obtain special access to neighbors, the social platform where many owners of Porte cameras publish and download images to their neighborhood. This gives any police officer who signs access to user publications directly in their reception box. Read the marking investigation into this relationship between the police and the ring. We also found that in Los Angeles, neighbors in richer areas posted more frequently than users in poorer areas. (Learn more about these demographics here.)
The best option for owners of existing rings
Ring is the most popular intelligent sound on the American market and is often recommended on product reviews of products.
If a ring camera is the right choice for you, you can take measures to adjust your safety settings in different ways, in particular by preventing the police from contacting you to share images or to see which devices have been used to connect to your account.
Just jump to the dashboard of the ring control center, to which you can access via the Ring application menu connected to your cameras. On this dashboard, there are many options from which you can choose, many consumers presented to you, but if you are concerned about the police:
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Disable police emails
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Deactivate neighbors' messages
The best option for people who really want a camera
So you want a camera for your front door that also respects your concerns about ethics and privacy. Here are some elements that we think is important to consider:
- What could the door cameras do with your flow or images?
- How could hackers have your stream or images?
- Who owns your data and where is it stored?
Wired has a useful guide on navigation on various confidentiality problems, and we have summarized some of the points below.
Company policies: When you look at the brands, it is always useful to understand what is the official position of a company on the sharing of images – with which and in which cases. Apple, Arlo, Eufy and Wyze only share images with the police when presented with an order or a mandate of justice. Ring and Google Nest can also share images of their cameras in potentially fatal emergencies. Ring also has a much closer relationship with the police than other companies because of their application of neighbors. If a user displays his images on the neighbors, he can alert the police officers who have registered with notifications on crime positions in their region. Knowing when a company shares your images should allow you to choose one whose policies correspond to your level of comfort.
Hackers: We have already shared that the pirates have taken control of the doorbell cameras in the past. Although there is no guarantee that a company's camera is like pirate, plan to use a camera from a large business. Matthew Guariglia, political analyst of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Wired that major brands tended to be examined, and that makes them do more work to solve the main security problems and solve the folds to preserve their public image.
Possession: Look for how your images are stored, which ultimately has it and where it can be shared. Companies generally share this information using Legalese under the user conditions of use “accept” when they register. The markup has also set up this guide on how to read these privacy policies. Make sure you look if a business allows you to store images locally on the device, or on your own hard drive or memory card, rather than in the cloud, because it is more vulnerable to hackers.
Okay, I understand. I have to make my own decision, but just tell me what to buy. Although the markup does not approve of camera companies anytime soon, we have traveled online criticism and found that several guides have stressed Arlo as a good brand to explore.
The best options for people who just want to get their packages
If you look at the neighbors of the Ring Social Platform, you will quickly notice three major problems which are raised over and over again: the flight of packaging, burglaries and burglaries (markup has analyzed about a million messages of neighbors for our messages Neighborhood surveillance seriesAnd we can confirm this hypothesis!).
Although the cameras can be useful in many ways, they may not prevent thefts as effectively as other measures, according to Ben Stickle, expert in flight and associate professor of criminal justice at the Middle Tennessee State University. In one of his studies, Stickle examined 67 videos of people caught on the camera stealing packages for an academic newspaper on the piracy of the porch, and found that the camera did not deter thieves, many of which were looking directly in the camera.
Recommendation n ° 1: be deliberate on where your packages are delivered
Stickle recommends finding ways to keep deliveries out of sight or lock them. If you wish to give delivery instructions on where to deliver your mail or obtain updates on your deliveries, USPS, FEDEX and UPS all offer means to take more control over how and the place of delivery of your packages. There are also companies that offer locking boxes for your home to which the factors can access deliveries (Consumer Reports has examined several brands)
Recommendation n ° 2: Put a (false) sign
Stickle noted that even if the cameras do not dissuade burglars because they are difficult to notice until you are close to them, the panels announcing that a property uses cameras or that there is a dog on the spot is more likely to have an effect. So whether or not you have a camera (or a dog), you can install a panel.
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