{"id":222411,"date":"2026-03-11T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/doorbell-cameras-raise-privacy-and-safety-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:45:13","slug":"doorbell-cameras-raise-privacy-and-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/doorbell-cameras-raise-privacy-and-safety-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Doorbell cameras raise privacy and safety concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/doorbell-cameras-raise-privacy-and-safety-concerns\">Doorbell cameras raise privacy and safety concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/doorbell-cameras-raise-privacy-and-safety-concerns\">https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/doorbell-cameras-raise-privacy-and-safety-concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-11 12:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cbsaustin.com\">cbsaustin.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 <\/span>The front door is the gateway to your home, and doorbell cameras are helping people keep a watchful eye on what is happening outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf someone&#8217;s at your door and you don&#8217;t know who they are, you don&#8217;t have to open your door up,\u201d said Gene Petrino, Lead Security Advisor at Security.org.<\/p>\n<p>Today, there are dozens of doorbell cameras on the market. A basic Ring doorbell starts around $50. A monthly subscription ranges between $5-$20. A Blink doorbell cost around $60, with plans starting at $4. A Google Nest doorbell could set someone back $180, with plans ranging from $6-12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone that&#8217;s looking at purchasing a security system or camera, really needs to do their research first, make sure they understand the capabilities of it,\u201d said Petrino.<\/p>\n<p>One security expert warns simply owning a doorbell camera can create a false sense of security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have the front, the side, the back, driveway, walkway. Those things are often neglected when you select only a doorbell camera,\u201d said Matt Sailor, CEO of IC Realtime Security Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge of retrieving video in Nancy Guthrie&#8217;s disappearance has also drawn attention to the camera&#8217;s flaws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey very rarely store on site, meaning on the camera itself. They generally require a subscription. And even when you get the subscription, a lot of the time, the time period in which they archive the data is quite limited,\u201d said Sailor.<\/p>\n<p>Most cameras will save video for 30 to 60 days.<\/p>\n<p>Putting video in the cloud has also raised privacy concerns after Guthrie\u2019s camera reportedly did not have a subscription but authorities were able to retrieve video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerally, there is residual data on any cloud storage plan,\u201d said Sailor.<\/p>\n<p>Ring and Nest\u2019s policies state they may share user data if it\u2019s required by law, such as a court order, or when someone&#8217;s life may be in danger. Nest\u2019s policy states that video can be captured when a device is offline. Video will stay in the cloud for varying amounts of time,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/doorbell-cameras-raise-privacy-and-safety-concerns\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doorbell cameras raise privacy and safety concerns https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/doorbell-cameras-raise-privacy-and-safety-concerns Publish Date: 2026-03-11 12:32:00 Source Domain: cbsaustin.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/986\/1320\/0x1\/90\/2f4fb267-05b5-41ad-ad97-730e8cd1bbca-RingdoorbellJackie2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222413,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222411\/revisions\/222413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}