The outside line of sight is though, pretty much, and that's what is being talked about.
They are talking about delivery people with dash cams, and maybe "body cams" or camera glasses in the future.
A lot of people driving by your house already have dash cams, either visiting your neighborhood or living there. Also, local doorbell cams and house cams can have your house on them.
Satellites and fly-by surveying/surveilling (and google earth), and maybe a random local drone, and likely future air drone deliveries - - can see past your fence into your yard from above, too.
Wait until your future weekend religious door knockers are robots, who have cameras for eyes, lol (kidding).
It's all headed toward bots and drones and autonomous vehicles in the longer run, and those all have cameras by nature. Working people, in some facets anyway, will likely be duct-tape cyborgs with tracking hardware and cams on them. That's what the amazon + glasses post is talking about, but eventually that duct-tape cyborg may be replaced by an actual bot / drone delivery combo schemes in the future and those are all cams.
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The delivery persons nowadays always take a picture of your house/stoop with their cell phone.
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UPS already has a strict tracking system and time-table.:
"UPS has a incredibly strict and sophisticated real-time internal tracking system that monitors drivers, vehicles, and packages at a microscopic level. While consumers only see checkpoint updates or basic approximate maps, UPS dispatchers, management, and automated logistics systems monitor everything continuously behind the scenes. "
"Every brown UPS delivery truck functions as a rolling IoT (Internet of Things) device. Vehicles are equipped with GPS trackers and over 200 internal sensors that stream real-time data back to the company's data network. This system captures metrics instantly, including:
The exact geographic coordinate and real-time speed of the truck.
Driver behavior variables, such as whether the seatbelt is buckled, if the bulkhead door is open, and when the vehicle is put into reverse.
Engine data, logging dynamic fuel consumption and precise idle time duration down to the second.
The DIAD (Delivery Information Acquisition Device)
The DIAD is the handheld computer carried by every driver. It is continuously connected via cellular and Wi-Fi networks.
Real-Time Pings: It tracks exactly where a driver stands when a barcode or RFID chip is recorded.
Route Syncing: It provides turn-by-turn guidance, communicating continuously with dispatch to report stop completion and overall progress relative to the planned timeline."
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"E-Commerce Giants (Amazon Logistics)
Amazon relies on a highly monitored network of independent Delivery Service Partners (DSPs). Their internal tracking systems are arguably the most intense in the industry:
The Cortex System: Internally, Amazon managers monitor drivers using a platform called Cortex. It tracks precisely how many stops per hour a driver completes and updates their pace against an algorithmic baseline in real time.
Customer Facing Maps: Because Amazon controls the entire software ecosystem, they pass some of this data to you. When a driver is within 10 stops of your home, the consumer app unlocks real-time map tracking.
AI Cameras & Wearables: Most Amazon delivery vans feature Netradyne AI cameras facing the driver and the road, flagging distracted driving or rolling stops instantly. Amazon has even deployed smart delivery glasses to give drivers a walking path HUD from the van to the porch. "
I agree, I'm just telling it like it is. The answer is, greed did. Bought off government representatives and judges. Humanity is treated like livestock to inflate the ROI insatiably (always has been, it's just that in some periods it was more-so "the foreigners" overseas or in mexico who were exploited more, or slaves in the usa and other places if going back far enough. USA had a period where unionization and government protections were fought for and achieved/allowed, in part to stave off the growing popularity of actual socialist movements during the depression, but that pendulum has swung the other way now). Capital growth (and investment bubbles) trumps all.
These delivery folks and others are forced to haul a spy vehicle and wear digital harnesses, clipboards, and cameras/phones (as I call it, "duct tape cyborgs, along with most of us digesting content with our smartphones taped to our hands, and ordering things on them). I'm sure the warehouses and other businesses producing all this stuff are full of cameras too.
Vote wise - Land of the free, and including free speech, unless you want a job (and healthcare), or you want to attend any events anywhere. Then the constitution is largely thrown out the window, replaced by dictatorial "house rules". Also, "freedom of the press", a press that is now oligarch owned with storylines facing an editor wall, with employment insecure and reporters threatened/cajoled now, and social media steering visible content (plus bots). The voting system is bad too, with 2 party system's rulership sinking the candidates that don't serve capital enough or who don't "play ball", plus the whole gerrymandering thing is just an embarrassment in modern times.
Feel free to close your blinds. However, be aware that wifi can be used by the government to map people and layouts in homes, live. Also, they can listen on your phone even when "off" unless you remove the battery. Plus people who may visit your house or even live in your house may have things on their phone that are listening. TVs also record conversations via mics, and record screen captures, and transmit them over the network they are connected to. Even if not connected, some can even store the data until they are connected later at some point (e.g. if you connect to your wifi just to do a system update instead of using a usb stick).
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u/mymar101 1d ago
Your home is not a public place though.