Systems that save footage to an internal hard drive (NVR/DVR) rather than the cloud keep data under the owner's physical control.
The ensuing conflict split Maplewood Estates. On the Nextdoor app, a war of words erupted. One faction argued that exterior spaces have no reasonable expectation of privacy. “If you can see it from the sidewalk, a camera can see it,” posted user @SafetyFirst42. Another faction, led by a retired ACLU lawyer named Helen, fired back: “Continuous, AI-powered surveillance is not a glance. It’s a dragnet.” Systems that save footage to an internal hard