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Kaltern
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Location: Lockerbie, Scotland
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 Posted: Thu, 2nd Apr 2015 16:12 Post subject: Home cam tracks fiancee and cat |
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Source: BBC News
| Quote: | At a time when the spread of surveillance tech is stoking controversy, I decided to install an app-controlled internet camera in my flat.
The gadget allowed me to look and listen in to my fiancee and pet cat's living-room activities at any time, and would send me an alert if it detected movement or noise I might be interested in.
A night-vision mode meant the dark offered no respite, and just in case I missed anything there was also the opportunity to review and download a time-lapse clip of recent events.
Paula, my partner, was rather uneasy about the development. |
| Quote: | After a fortnight of being put under the internet's equivalent of the microscope, the last word deservedly goes to Paula: "These things need to have a purpose. For security you could set up an alarm at the door.
"It seems to me they're more about having control over other people in the house.
"One of the ads they use shows a little kid holding up a drawing to the camera, but in reality it will be about the parents checking when their children came home and if they did their homework. Or jealous boyfriends checking what their other half is doing.
"It's an intrusion of privacy, I felt like someone had bugged our home." |
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garus
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| Posted: Thu, 2nd Apr 2015 16:24 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 2nd Apr 2015 17:22 Post subject: |
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The NSA approves of this!
| chiv wrote: | | don't quote me on that |
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DXWarlock
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Location: Florida, USA
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| Posted: Thu, 2nd Apr 2015 18:47 Post subject: |
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Eh, I dont see the issue.
Your house, put whatever you want in it long as its within your right to do so. If the people living in the house doesn't like it, or doesn't like you for it..either you remove it, or they remove themselves from the house as you two are now at an impasse.
For example make the same situation as above with 2 other people: "I don't like my boyfriend put cameras in his house". for me it comes down to if you talked to him about refusing to live like that, and he doesn't want to remove them. Sound like you need a new boyfriend. There is nothing wrong with what he did, only thing wrong is your both in disagreement it was done.
I cant see it as an invasion of privacy in a private house done by people that are living there. How do you invade your own privacy? Where someone decides there "privacy at home" is, and who they share it with is a choice. Like her saying it felt like an invasion of it. Thats a personal issue between you and him on the subject matter, not the technology used.
Just because someone feels uncomfortable with what you did to your own property, doesn't make it immoral or wrong, it just means you disagree on the reasons for it.
Like if 2 people that didn't have a problem with it lived together, its not 'immorally wrong'. Why would it be because one of them isn't on the same page as the other person.
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| Posted: Thu, 2nd Apr 2015 20:00 Post subject: |
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it only becomes an invasion of privacy then if what you want to be doing, under that camera, where if normally it was not there, is not acceptable to the occupants that live in that abode where the camera resides 
nothing to hide? you go nothing to worry about right?
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| Posted: Thu, 2nd Apr 2015 21:09 Post subject: |
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That's nonsense, though. People will feel watched and feel restricted - it's different with CCTV because these images are barely being watched and are usually only used after something happened but in a house, how many people are there? The less people there are, the more watched people would feel.
Cameras can have real benefits though - I plan to install one in my living room for when the cleaning lady drops by while I'm at work. It makes sure she doesn't nick anything of mine and also means she won't dilly dally not to mention I'll have proof of when she arrives and leaves (you pay by the hour). I think in these circumstances a camera is warranted.
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