It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels the industry itself is causing much more damage than good. Here is a short summary of the damages it is causing and how to deal with them.
Get normal IP cameras and problem solved.
Still gotta block them at the firewall in case they are phoning home. Caught some of mine doing that
With an NVR most of them can run fully offline.
Yeah amcrest pings for config. They’re blocked
It doesn’t. Self-hosted open source surveillance is still surveillance. Constantly monitoring your children (above a certain age) is still helicopter parenting.
They’re months old, fuck off telling me that’s helicopter parenting. Don’t comment when you literally don’t know
That’s obviously not what this article is about. Notice how I said “above a certain age”?