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Comment by moralestapia

2 years ago

Nice project but it could be illegal. Check your jurisdiction.

Source: have done similar hobby projects for fun, which turned out to be illegal.

What part of this would be illegal? It's just a zigbee door sensor. The only issue I could see is the college getting upset but if anything they'd just say 'take it down'

  • object detection of people from images is probably what they are referring to. there are maybe some state laws that could be stretched to include that but i would say presumptively legal

    • The final solution does not depend on object (people) detection. In fact by the end of the article he has totally eliminated the camera

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Bunch of restaurants use those fancy Nest cams that remember faces. Is this illegal too? Feels like it should be controlled in some way.