We don’t have any expectation of privacy in the US. You can place cameras anywhere you like on your property and can film anything in public.

Unfortunately we have to make our own privacy here (by closing the shades, etc.)

I enjoy having cameras on my house to see what’s going on in the neighborhood. It has come in handy at least once when my neighbor’s truck was stolen in broad daylight.

They are ring cameras because two were installed already when I moved in. What should I switch to? I just really want motion alerts and proof when something bad happens.

It almost seems like they want to make home computing unaffordable, so you have to rent PC time from a cloud provider. This way they nickel and dime you, and use your data to train their LLMs.

Micron and nvidia get their cut by being able to set whatever prices they can imagine.