[muzani]

My late dad has had one for over 20 years. It was there to monitor the babysitter, but it's still monitoring our house. We had a break in once and the camera didn't do a damn thing. The footage was valid reason to fire a couple of babysitters, though. We've caught family members stealing on camera, and we've caught monkeys stealing too. The footage is useful for fairly differentiating the two.

Maybe because I grew up with it in a high crime area, I don't see it as a problem. The living room is not a private place, it's a semi-public space like the backyard. Private places were things like bedrooms and bathrooms. The maid and babysitter works in the living room and would act like someone would in an office with people in it.

Privacy has a price. Since we live in a fairly high crime area (where crimes were committed by people who lived there), it was an acceptable cost to lose privacy of a large area of our home. I'm not okay with FB selling my personal info, because I don't get enough in exchange. But I pay the privacy toll to WhatsApp because they're part of the communications infrastructure.

[cm2012]

Facebook doesn't sell your info.

[muzani]

Ads. There's no difference to me if FB gave my email to a sleazy marketer than if they show me sleazy ads because I'm a single male in a certain age group. At least I can block the email.