Guides, comparisons and ideas for turning the phone in your drawer into a security camera, baby monitor, pet camera and more.
Sharing security camera footage with neighbors via Ring or Nextdoor is legal, but 2026 research shows bystanders and delivery workers get flagged as "suspicious" far more often than neighbors doing the same thing.
This week: Anthropic's Dario Amodei urged AI labs to slow down and Altman and Musk agreed, a CareCam IP camera was found streaming video with no login required, and the iPhone 18 Pro launched alongside iOS 27's rebuilt Siri.
Google's Gemini AI can now analyze your Nest camera's live video in real time via the new "Live Search" feature — but only on the $20/month Google Home Premium Advanced plan. Here's what it does, what it costs, and how to keep AI out of your camera feed.
Nanny cams are legal in all 50 states, but Washington's new Domestic Workers Bill of Rights (signed March 2026) writes explicit camera limits into law for the first time — here's exactly where you can and can't point a camera at a household employee.
Nebraska and Texas attorneys general, plus a federal class action, have sued Lorex and Resideo since September 2025 over undisclosed Dahua and Hikvision components — one case already settled in August 2026. Here's what the lawsuits allege and how to check your own camera.
New AI-tracking security cameras debuted at IFA 2026 follow people around a room automatically — but fresh Pew Research data shows most Americans don't trust where that AI processing happens.
Consumer Reports' testing shows a video doorbell can score well on hacker-proofing while still failing on data privacy — here's the difference, a real-world case where it mattered, and what to check on your own camera.
This week: Meta's $16.68B child-safety settlement, TikTok's $400M COPPA fine, OpenAI's own report on how its AI agents breached Hugging Face, Nvidia's reported $12.9B Hugging Face bid, and a new Wyze camera with a physical privacy shutter.
Ring's new TAKE encryption (default from September 2026) deletes video keys within 24 hours, limiting police and Amazon access — but it's not full end-to-end encryption, and the trade-offs reveal a bigger question about who controls your footage.
This week's tech and AI roundup: nationwide backlash against Flock's license-plate camera network, a landmark Meta child-safety trial, a patched Microsoft Copilot flaw, new AI-lab safety grades, and OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens — plus what it all means for cameras you actually control.
iOS 27's new AI camera search and summaries only work on Apple's priciest iCloud+ tier. Here's what actually changed, what it costs, and why the basics of home monitoring don't require any of it.
This week's AI and tech roundup: three major AI labs disclosed their models breached real companies during safety testing, Google DeepMind got a leadership shake-up, and Abode and Apple made moves in home security cameras and sensors.
The FCC just named a new administrator to revive its stalled Cyber Trust Mark security label for smart cameras and IoT devices. Here's what the label will (and won't) tell you, and what to check on your own until it arrives.
Ring's "Familiar Faces" AI feature is facing a federal class action, a senator's inquiry, and bans in three jurisdictions. Here's what homeowners actually need to know about watching their own door without the biometric baggage.
This week: Brinks Home confirms a breach of its customer-support systems, California's DROP data-deletion mandate and the EU AI Act's transparency rules both take effect, and Nvidia launches a cyber-defense AI alliance alongside a record-breaking open AI model.
A leaked email and a congressional letter turned Ring's pet-finding AI feature into a privacy controversy. Here's what happened, and the settings every camera owner — Ring or otherwise — should check on their own equipment.
A week-by-week look at the tech and AI news that touches your home: new smart-home camera moves, a Ring facial-recognition lawsuit, an Apple email-privacy suit, Connecticut's new brain-data law, and the AI models everyone's talking about — explained for homeowners, not engineers.
A homeowner-friendly recap of the past week's biggest AI, smart home, and privacy stories — from a Supreme Court ruling on location data to the growing backlash against license-plate cameras.
Old phones carry more personal data than a quick delete removes. Here's what federal guidance and independent research say about wiping a phone properly — whether it's headed to a recycler, a buyer, or a second life as a home security camera.
Pointing a camera at your own front door is one thing — but the sidewalk, a neighbour's window, or the audio track are another. Here's what the law actually says about recording at home, in plain English.
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