Security cameras guarding Magna Carta are provided by a Chinese CCTV company whose technology has allegedly aided the persecution of Uyghurs and been exploited by Russia during the invasion of Ukraine, it has emerged.
In letters seen by the Guardian, campaigners called on Salisbury Cathedral, which houses one of four surviving copies of the “powerful symbol of social justice”, to rip out cameras made by Dahua Technology, based in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.
They have also written to the authorities responsible for the Parthenon temple in Greece, which is monitored by cameras produced by another Chinese company, Hikvision.
Cameras made by the firms have already been removed from sensitive UK government sites, over concerns that they could be remotely accessed by China and used to spy on sensitive sites.
Honestly, Id rather have China have access to my cameras than the USA. Any good replacements for Ring not based in the USA?
How about not installing cameras pointing at your neighbors
like seriously unless you have stalkers, you don’t need that shit. it’s peak surveillance society paranoia
Weeeeell you could use a defined boundary where its supposed to record. Mine only starts recording when you step on my door step while my dumb ass neighbors records and says “HI YOURE BEING RECORDED” when Im walking across the street.
The problem is not when and what it is recording based on how it is configured. The problem is that law enforcement can (by design) use a backdoor and gain access to these cameras for real-time surveillance, at will. Since they have access to the feed, they can also record it all.
Additionally, these cameras get hacked all the times.
The point being - if the cameras are up, they will be abused by others. If you really need cameras, put them inside your house. That way you’ll only invade your own privacy, and you won’t enable criminals to misuse it for spying on anybody else than yourself.
I’m sure it’s definitely obeying all those parameters. Totally not recording all the time
You can tell it is by the missing part of the image.
I’ve been really happy with Reolink stuff. My old ONVIF-supporting doorbell camera died so I ended up replacing it with a Reolink because of their great home assistant integration and I ended up getting some more of their cameras. Their app is nice too, and recordings are all stored locally on microSD cards, no cloud account required.
I like there being no requirement for a cloud account, but the storage being on a card in the camera seems vulnerable. What’s to keep someone from taking the card?
They also have an NVR that you can connect the cameras to, it has a hard drive that can store data from the cameras if you don’t want to use an micro sd card for each
Literally any wifi enabled doorbell camera that keeps working when you block it from accessing the internet. Then just VPN into your home network if you need to access it remotely.
Ring environment is more than that and its a shit ton more convenient that they have battery operated outdoor cameras that are wifi enabled, door sensors, mention detectors, etc with batteries that’ll last a month on a single charge with easily swapable batteries. Literally the superior product but now I have to deal with Flock.
In that case, make sure you enable E2EE.
They definitely try to dissuade you from doing this with all of the “are you sure? You’ll lose access to all these features” warnings.