To balance security with respect for personal privacy, consider the following best practices:
Before you buy that 4K, AI-driven, facial-recognition-equipped bundle on Prime Day, ask yourself:
Be a good neighbor. Adjust your cameras to ensure they are focused on your entry points and property line, avoiding neighboring windows or private yards.
Company privacy policies matter enormously, yet few consumers read them. Some providers have been caught allowing employees to access customer video without consent, sharing data with law enforcement without a warrant, or using footage to train facial recognition algorithms. The question is no longer just “Is my camera secure?” but “Is the company treating my footage as my private data, or as their product?”
Innovations are emerging to resolve the privacy-security conflict:
To balance security with respect for personal privacy, consider the following best practices:
Before you buy that 4K, AI-driven, facial-recognition-equipped bundle on Prime Day, ask yourself:
Be a good neighbor. Adjust your cameras to ensure they are focused on your entry points and property line, avoiding neighboring windows or private yards.
Company privacy policies matter enormously, yet few consumers read them. Some providers have been caught allowing employees to access customer video without consent, sharing data with law enforcement without a warrant, or using footage to train facial recognition algorithms. The question is no longer just “Is my camera secure?” but “Is the company treating my footage as my private data, or as their product?”
Innovations are emerging to resolve the privacy-security conflict:
