The growth of the home security camera market can be attributed to several factors:
You are usually allowed to record public-facing areas like driveways or sidewalks.
Facial recognition is no longer a sci-fi trope. Many systems now offer "familiar face alerts." But where does that data go? Some services use your uploaded face prints to train their algorithms for other customers. Worse, law enforcement has increasingly asked companies like Ring to hand over footage from private cameras without a warrant—not of the crime scene, but of entire neighborhoods.
The paper is available via the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies .
: Use Multi-Factor Authentication for every camera account. Strong Passwords : Never use default or recycled passwords.