Take Control of Home Security Cameras

Protect Privacy

Privacy isn’t so much a double-edged sword as a pointy mace without a handle that’s very hard to pick up. In the modern era, you have to consider your own privacy and whether you’re invading other people’s. You also need to think about whether police or government agents will have an interest in what you’re recording—live or archived.

In this chapter, I look at these three issues: your privacy, that of others, and the surveillance state and your role in it.

Keep Your Cameras and Video Private

Video is intimate, even when you’re fully clothed and reading Bleak House on a couch in your living room. It’s worse if you have children or other people who live with you who are vulnerable or naïve.

The basis of installing any home security ...