[robmcm]

I think there is an ever increasing market for reverse engineered services for products like this. I would love to have a local instance of their back end running, that I would be in total control of.

That way I could choose to make it work externally or not, or even have it working when there is not external internet connectivity.

The problem is, the perceived value of these companies is having access to the video. I'm sure it won't be long before they start auto analysis the video for "faces" or "products" or what TV/Music you listened as a "feature". At which point we slowly start to boil...

[ausjke]

there are cameras with a lid that you can physically close video-taking, no way to bypass it.