Home Security Surveillance Takes New Course in California City
In the city of Atherton, California, which is one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country, the local police department is offering their home security surveillance services to the citizens. This may sound a little strange.
For a fee, the police department will have access to surveillance cameras in homes (and possibly even schools if they can get them to sign on) that they will hopefully be able to use in case of crime or crime prevention. The way it works is the home cameras will be connected by a network to the same network as the cameras that surveil the city. When a homeowners alarm is tripped, the department has access to live video feeds supplied from the cameras installed in the home. Supposedly, this is the only time the video will be accessible, in addition to a minute prior to any tripping of the home alarm.
Does this not creep you out? I’m sorry, but there is no way I would ever allow anyone to have access to camera footage in my home, especially not the government, and even more especially not the cops. This is the closest thing to big brother I have ever heard of.
The crazy part is they want you to pay for the service. I guess I can see how this may theoretically be helpful to some, especially in a community inhabited by tech company CEOs and other extremely wealthy families, but I really do not see this catching on. You have to figure that most of these people can afford private security firms to patrol their homes. This seems like such a strange thing to me.
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