I have cameras around my home. If someone breaks in I have video recording that I can provide police. I also live in a safe expensive neighborhood and naturally we have police cameras and a well funded police force. They have what they need to make sure no one breaks into my house and get away with it.
More importantly, can _I_ log into the cameras? Because allowing randos into the data is the real ask.
I understand that the unspoken assumption is that (unlike internet randos such as myself) LEOs and your local government and every other jerk to whom they decide to grant access are universally "good and well intentioned".
But I am always astonished that folks really believe that assumption when stated as such.
If you give up on that assumption, though, the actual reality is that there isn't a difference between only letting literally everyone who has or knows someone with a .gov address access who comes and goes from your house and letting every random dumbass such as myself access that information.
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I have cameras around my home. If someone breaks in I have video recording that I can provide police. I also live in a safe expensive neighborhood and naturally we have police cameras and a well funded police force. They have what they need to make sure no one breaks into my house and get away with it.
Try coming up w a better analogy
How does any random law enforcement officer pull up the footage from your cameras when ever they want check you aren't breaking the law?
Can the police log in to your cameras at any time and pull footage? Because they can with Flock cameras.
More importantly, can _I_ log into the cameras? Because allowing randos into the data is the real ask.
I understand that the unspoken assumption is that (unlike internet randos such as myself) LEOs and your local government and every other jerk to whom they decide to grant access are universally "good and well intentioned".
But I am always astonished that folks really believe that assumption when stated as such.
If you give up on that assumption, though, the actual reality is that there isn't a difference between only letting literally everyone who has or knows someone with a .gov address access who comes and goes from your house and letting every random dumbass such as myself access that information.
After all, how do we know domestic abuse isn't happening there without cameras?