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I need help advocating for privacy in my HOA, which wants to set up cameras in common areas (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 day ago by NaNin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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A new neighbor moved in and is really advocating for them, but I think most people in the HOA are split. It's come up after some recent thefts after someone left a garage door open. I'm thinking of organizing my arguments like this:

  1. Even with a camera capturing a thief's face, police are unlikely to actually catch the person or retreive the stolen property.
  2. Invasion of personal privacy, I don't like being tracked and my whereabouts being monitored
  3. Surrendering biometric data without my consent
  4. Police / ICE using the data without permission to harass our residents

How does this sound? It's so exhausting fighting against this. Does anyone have any other good points or articles that can provide support? Many thanks in advance

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[โ€“] sturger@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Go talk to your local police department. They'll likely have some suggestions on how to place to the cameras to be most useful in an investigation.
You may also be surprised to find out they'll just ignore the video evidence unless the thief holds up their driver's license and 6 other forms of valid ID in front of the camera. In other words, you might find out there will be no investigation regardless of how much video footage you present.

[โ€“] NaNin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is the case. I have to believe that the police have much more pressing work than these small time thefts. I'm just trying to find some article attesting to that, not just anecdotes. But all my research turns up is stuff from camera companies pushing their products lol