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Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab

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174 points nicosalm | 2 comments | 21 Oct 24 19:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source
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moralestapia ◴[21 Oct 24 20:09 UTC] No.41908019[source]▶
Nice project but it could be illegal. Check your jurisdiction.

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

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soggybread ◴[21 Oct 24 20:14 UTC] No.41908064[source]▶
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'
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whimsicalism ◴[21 Oct 24 20:17 UTC] No.41908100[source]▶
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
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ninju ◴[21 Oct 24 21:14 UTC] No.41908579[source]▶
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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1. oniony ◴[21 Oct 24 22:20 UTC] No.41909173[source]▶
Doors have rights too!
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2. sceadu ◴[22 Oct 24 10:46 UTC] No.41913015[source]▶
I guess depending on how you open them they do indeed have the right to bear arms