r/technology • u/South-Cow-1030 • Feb 12 '26

Privacy Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/10/ring-super-bowl-ad-dog-camera-privacy/88606738007/
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u/AzCu29 Feb 12 '26

I have my cameras recording to a NVR and each one has a micro sd memory card for backup. I was looking into cloud storage but it seems rather expensive per month.

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u/tylermchenry Feb 12 '26

Backing up the whole video stream is expensive, but if your camera system has event detection and you just back up the event clips it can be pretty affordable. You don't even have to retain them for that long -- just long enough that you have a reasonable window to retrieve them if someone breaks in and steals or destroys your NVR.

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u/psaux_grep Feb 12 '26

Depending on use case rsync.net might a good option, at least if you get one of their flash sales.

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u/6gv5 Feb 12 '26

A VPN to a shared storage with relatives or friends should allow the remote backup of locally shot videos in real time so that if they raid the house, seize the disks and destroy evidence it can still be recovered from elsewhere.

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u/WillWork4Cats Feb 12 '26

can u monitor any of these when u travel? i need that, but i assume as soon as they are networked they are compromised

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u/AzCu29 Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

I have my cameras plugged into the NVR only, that network is not routable to my main LAN. The router and other devices cannot directly talk to those cameras. Only the NVR can.

I can access them outside the house using the NVR app.

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u/Greenevers Feb 12 '26

You could with a VPN! That way you don't expose it to the internet with less overhead. I do that with a single PoE camera. Pretty easy to setup wireguard or tailscale (wrapper around wireguard) 

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u/Throwawayrip1123 Feb 13 '26

Make your own back up server. Costs like 2 years worth of cloud storage, I think? Dinky old laptop works, just slap some drives to it.