The camera companies always end up having a lot in common:

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/2123068verkadac...

▲ JumpCrisscross 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

…what’s the commonality?

▲ conradev 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Should've included a bit more but the title does a good job:

  The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare

It's pretty consistent across camera tracking companies. Facial recognition more broadly, like Clearview AI as well. I don't have a unifying theory other than it's a very obvious business model that naturally accrues power as well. Not unlike... selling drugs.

The model is not entirely unhelpful: selling better drugs might be one of the few practical solutions here. If cameras have undeniably visible benefits for private companies and public safety (I think they ultimately will), then the question is how to build them in a way that avoids accrual of centralized power while providing the benefits. You can attack that problem from a lot of angles, but at the moment it is undeniably hard to build video sensing in a way that doesn't rely on centralized (computing) power.

	▲	mycall 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Will public safety improve or will big brother have a stronger grip on your digital life?

▲ spaceguillotine 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

lack of security it looks like

▲ NicoJuicy 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not all of them. At my workplace (the parent company, actually), security and privacy are among the highest priorities.

Competing with companies that don’t share these values is a “slow path.”

For instance, one of the most common requests is integrating our VMS with Chinese cameras, because of cost. While we’ve done it in the past, using a hardware device to prevent unexpected protocol communication, our CEO concluded that it was ethically questionable given our principles.

TLDR: The feature was dropped, and you can imagine that this decision had a significant impact on sales.

Pretty bold move, honestly.

Because of things like that, that's why I stay.