Difference is most of those things you mention overwrite their data in a few days or weeks. Even doorbell cameras, no one's stuff is being stored indefinitely.

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HDBaseT an hour ago | parent [-]

How do you know?

Most of these are cloud connected, how do you know they aren't storing license plate information, or face data, or audio data for extended periods of time in the cloud?

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Arch-TK 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Are you implying that we shouldn't be annoyed at Flock and forced GPS tracking in cars because my ignorant neighbours have a cloud connected doorbell?

Because I am instead annoyed at all three.

Not necessarily my neighbours, but the companies selling this spyware.

	▲	HDBaseT 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That is not what I'm suggesting at all, what?

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asdff 40 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Nothing comes for free, so what's the profit angle to do this? Government is the obvious customer, but that would leave a papertrail too if such deals were worked out especially asking for perpetual storage until the heat death of the universe.

	▲	HDBaseT 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The cost comes from your tax. Surveillance has an unlimited budget. You can store an ungodly amount of data if you convert everything to metadata, e.g store a face picture for a short period of time, create a hash to match against other faces in the database. Same with license plates. Using the metadata alone could effectively completely track your whereabouts.