Home cams capture faces without consent

Facial recognition on consumer doorbells means anyone approaching a house—or even passing on the sidewalk—can have their face scanned, stored, and matched without notice or consent. Because it’s legal in most states and tied to mass‑market products, this normalizes ambient biometric capture in neighborhoods and creates new breach and abuse risks. — It shifts the privacy fight from government surveillance to household devices that externalize biometric risks onto the public, pressing for consent and retention rules at the state and platform level.