Views on video doorbells

What are people’s views on the rightness/wrongness of installing video doorbells on people’s apartment doors? I’m in a coop with a doorman, guests are announced (though they’ve gotten a bit lax about that lately), and delivery people are not permitted upstairs (building staff will bring the delivery to your apartment, and they’re not lax about that) and so can’t imagine why one would to surveil... [more]

What are people’s views on the rightness/wrongness of installing video doorbells on people’s apartment doors? I’m in a coop with a doorman, guests are announced (though they’ve gotten a bit lax about that lately), and delivery people are not permitted upstairs (building staff will bring the delivery to your apartment, and they’re not lax about that) and so can’t imagine why one would to surveil whomever is standing in front of your door. My neighbor has just stuck a video doorbell on his front door, and beside the fact that he got it on crooked and it doesn’t look very good, I don’t like the idea that my and my friends comings and goings are potentially recorded and trackable. I know that there is video surveillance of virtually every street in midtown, and most every store, and office building knows one’s every move when you’re in their space. Is it fair to expect that I have some privacy in the hallways of my apartment building? [less]