Cameras in the house is still creepy. Even baby monitors have been getting hacked for many years already.
Here’s a good example why not to do that: friend was in the process of divorce from a douche spouse, who was technically skilled and had installed security cameras inside and outside the house. They all left them in place knowingly, and the douche spouse who had to move out kept watching the family inside the house and bringing up things that happened in private. I was like “WTF unplug that shit”
That could be expanded to so many things that were creepy in the recent past but are totally normal now.
E.g. walking down the street talking loudly to somebody who’s not there.
How many people are actually watching the cameras in their house?
I think it’s a lot less than everybody.
Only time my dad ever had to check them was when the cleaning service repeatedly ‘forgot’ to clean the 2 bedrooms at the end of the hall. Only weirdos constantly monitor them.
I/my family don’t have cameras in our houses. At least none which aren’t blinded and/or plugged out.
What’s the point in putting a camera in your house if it can’t see anything or it’s turned off?
Simple: Plugging the only external camera I have into my computer allows me to have videocalls. Same with sliding the privacy blends off of my laptops and phone(s).
I’m pretty sure OP is talking about security cameras, not webcams.
Obviously. And my take was that not only do many people not watch their security cameras, most of them don’t even have any. Only (web)cams, most of which have privacy blenders or are plugged out.
Cameras in the house? That is still creepy.
This. It is easy to <checks notes> NOT put a bunch of cameras in your own house to surveil yourself.
Rich people decided to make the whole planet creepy
Well the rich people part is kind of silly.
In the past it was only rich people who had celphones, now it’s everybody. Before that it was only rich people who had computers at all.
Of course with cameras, I do have to note the bigger irony to me. IE I remember it largely being the tin foil hat nerds that were terrified of the government showing up at their door, watching for black hellicopters.
Now of course, the typical home buyer has cameras with internet access that gleefully share everything to the government, while the tinfoil hats either go way out of their way to make sure to get cameras that don’t go to the internet (or block them from doing so), or just avoid them altogether.
