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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)
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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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[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 9 points 20 hours ago

Does the HOA restrict individual residents from putting them on their own property?

If they're in shared common areas it affects all residents indiscriminately so it makes sense, to me at least, that unanimous agreement should be needed.

However, why not propose an alternative whereby this particular resident can add them to their property.

It took me 4 years but this is why I got our HOA disbanded.