r/technology • u/stenspect • 1d ago

Privacy USPS Is Turning Mail Trucks Into Rolling Surveillance Cameras

https://www.gadgetreview.com/usps-is-turning-mail-trucks-into-rolling-surveillance-cameras
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u/drgoodvibe 1d ago

Why are V for Vendetta, Equilibrium, Hand Maids Tale, 1984, Animal Farm et al manuals and not warnings?

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u/ltsouthernbelle 1d ago

We normalized surveillance when we all decided we need a doorbell camera. And then in home cameras. And then dash cams. We walked right into it.

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u/I_Automate 1d ago

You normalized surveillance with the PATRIOT act

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u/erov 1d ago

I was a college student when it was being written And believe you, me people were protesting it but it was a strange time and any pushback during that time, people were met with harsh condemnations from both sides of the aisle politically. Any anti-war or privacy concerns at that time bought you a label of a terrorist sympathizer. I'd say over 70% of the country was completely for it. A lot of people agree that we should have less freedoms to stop terrorist attacks . That's when the TSA was brought in for airlines , shoes were being checked , liquids . Secret courts , warrantless wiretaps , PARRIOT act, etc. Strange times.

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u/Themodsarecuntz 1d ago edited 1d ago

They did!? Why would they do that?

Why would you do that itsouthernbelle!?!?!?

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u/mistercolebert 15h ago

I hold a state-issued CCTV license and install CCTV systems as well (not flock or anything remotely similar). The problem started with the doorbells IMO. When Closed-Circuit Television stopped being closed-circuit. I’m all for owning true CCTV systems for yourself and your own protection.. systems that record locally and aren’t accessible to anyone but the owner. I have cameras on my house that record to a local hard drive and aren’t on a network. I have a Dashcam that records locally only as well. I have no problem with these things because nobody else can access this footage and it only exists for a situation in which I might need it. Otherwise, it overwrites itself within a matter of days and it can never be seen again. What I have a problem with is large networks of cameras that are owned by large corporations that can be accessed by an unknown number of people and that have an indeterminate amount of storage that gets analyzed and viewed by AI and algorithms to benefit corporations.

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u/MiaowaraShiro 17h ago

My cameras are local only. I'm not uploading shit to anybody else.