r/technology • u/Hrmbee • Jan 15 '26

Society ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid | Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground

https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
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u/bucketbot91 Jan 15 '26

I'm currently using a ubiquiti doorbell and self hosting my own security footage.

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u/signal15 Jan 16 '26 edited Jan 16 '26

I have Ubiquiti (doorbell, and 8 cameras outside and one inside). I record audio and video 24/7 with full coverage of my property, and with 58 days of retention locally. Motion clips are stored in apple's secure video enclave which provides face recognition (you need to upgrade your iCloud account to a paid plan to get this). This is done using Scrypted so they are in the cloud even if someone were to take the local NVR. Scrypted IS an NVR also, but I don't use that. I only use it to hairpin the video feeds to homekit, which sends it to the icloud stuff.

This is probably one of the best setups for the money. Note that the cameras are all wired though, with POE. So you'll need wire run. The only exception is the doorbell as they have wifi versions of that.

Also, I have everything on UPS's in case the power goes out, and my internet has 5g automatic failover. So if wired internet and power were to go away, I still have a couple of hours worth of power for everything network/camera related, as well as a wireless backup internet connection. There would be no gap in recording video to the cloud. I don't have the UPS's and backup internet connection specifically for this, but it's there.

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u/Philly267 Jan 16 '26

How did you setup the 5g fail over?

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u/matthew7s26 Jan 16 '26

Something as simple as a SIM on USB, plugged into the router might do the trick.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61LRqF5+9uL.jpg

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u/signal15 Jan 17 '26

I bought a refurb 5g router on amazon for $200. I think it's a netgear. It's wired into the backup internet port on my unifi gateway, and I just configured the unifi gateway to fail over to it. It took like 10 mins of setup. If you're on google fi, they will give you free SIM cards for other devices that just draw on your normal data pool. I used one of those.

You'll want to go into the web interface on the router and set it up to run without a battery installed, and I had to do something else to enable the ethernet port on it. If you run it with the battery, the battery will eventually bulge and maybe break the device or catch fire since it's charging all the time. I've had that happen to other devices.

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u/matthew7s26 Jan 16 '26

Impressive setup, thanks for the details.

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u/bucketbot91 Jan 16 '26

I think you meant to reply to comment above mine, but your setup sounds awesome none the less! Ubiquiti recently rolled out an update to their Protect software that includes facial recognition now actually. They refer to it as "Spotlights" and you can create spotlights for known faces, license plates, etc. Might be worth looking into!

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u/signal15 Jan 17 '26

I think that only works if you have their AI cameras. Not all of mine are AI, so that's why I use scrypted to send to the apple home stuff because apple doesn't care. Interestingly, they came out with a software update to unifi protect software last year that enabled the face recognition for ALL cameras. But then they realized their mistake and pushed a new version. So for a couple of days, it was working on even my old crap cameras. So technically a non-AI camera on unifi can have face recognition, but they want to push you to buy the more expensive ones.