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I need help advocating for privacy in my HOA, which wants to set up cameras in common areas (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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A new neighbor moved in and is really advocating for them, but I think most people in the HOA are split. It's come up after some recent thefts after someone left a garage door open. I'm thinking of organizing my arguments like this:

  1. Even with a camera capturing a thief's face, police are unlikely to actually catch the person or retreive the stolen property.
  2. Invasion of personal privacy, I don't like being tracked and my whereabouts being monitored
  3. Surrendering biometric data without my consent
  4. Police / ICE using the data without permission to harass our residents

How does this sound? It's so exhausting fighting against this. Does anyone have any other good points or articles that can provide support? Many thanks in advance

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Love this whole thread.

I would politely suggest a weekly thread like this one. Talking to {no common sense about tech} about {tech thing} in a way where they come to understand the problem, plainly and accurately.

How many places are there where you can see that in a way that real actual humans can understand, without getting yelled at by the poster? Not enough, that's how many.