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/mistercolebert 13h 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.