[RegnisGnaw]

The Tesla Sentry Mode only got their license plate in footage. They hit my parked car as they were backing out of their spot. I was able to go after their insurance to fix it.

Since I didn’t capture who was driving, the police didn’t charge them with hit and run.

[ooterness]

So you gave up everyone's privacy for no benefit at all?

[beAbU]

You can't have privacy when out in public!! No-one's privacy was given up here because no-one here was engaging in private acts, since all of them were in the public.

[alex43578]

The privacy of being in a parking lot, surrounded by a dozen other cameras from a myriad of businesses, in public?

[SkyPuncher]

Not sure, the point.

People generally aren't complaining about home owners mounting cameras for themselves (the car is no different). A 3rd party combining the interconnected nature of their system into a holistic system with sweeping coverage is much different than a single person figuring out who hit their car.

[seanmcdirmid]

It would be nice for neighborhood cameras to timely alert neighbors when a porch pirate was on the prowl in their neighborhood. I get the privacy implications, but after having a few packages stolen one might just not care anymore.

Since police absolutely have no care about porch pirates where i live, I rig my camera to turn up a siren for 10 seconds (using a homekit power plug) when it sees someone near my townhome after 11PM (this is enough to usually scare them off to easier pickings). It wouldn't be so bad if the kids bedroom wasn't on the first floor and we are on the third, but it is what it is. At least its only really bad in late spring and summer, the only time when Seattle's long rainy season comes in useful.

Its too bad that I can't bike in Seattle anymore, the theft situation just makes it too unbearable (and probably why you see fewer people biking these days even though they are dumping lots of money into biking infrastructure). Think what we could do with cameras like we've done with apple tags to ramp down bike theft (then again, police don't care, and people aren't ready to go vigilante here).

[RegnisGnaw]

Their insurance paid for the repairs to my car and a rental for the duration. Otherwise I would've had to go through my insurance ($1000 deductible) + possible rise in rates.

[Omatic810]

I don't think a Costco parking lot provides any reasonable expectation of privacy to be given up.

[DangitBobby]

I think there should be more than one standard. "Reasonable expectation of privacy" is usually used to dismiss people's concerns about constant surveillance. Let's stop being complicit in public surveillance.

[stalfosknight]

You do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a public space and it is absurd to suggest that people should/could.

[DangitBobby]

Were you replying to someone else?

[seanmcdirmid]

proper blame assignment is its own reward, at least the offending party's insurance rates increased (assuming they had insurance).

[RegnisGnaw]

And their insurance paid for the whole repair and car rental. No deductible for me and my increase on my insurance.

[4d4m]

admission is tough

[fn-mote]

Just wait until you go to a Walmart and they have a portable surveillance tower set up in the parking lot.