Nevada carrier
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I'm finalizing the purchase of my first home soon and I'm considering various home security service providers. One thing that I'm noticing is they all want to bump me up to systems with all the bells and whistles, at "no charge" in exchange for signing a contract for 36 months. granted they are giving me a lot of equipment, as much as I wish I could get a shorter contract it just doesn't look like any of them will budge on that. This isn't what really made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. When speaking to a rep from CRS, I asked how they confirm an alarm activation in order to request a police response. He replied that they don't dispatch a guard to respond and confirm a break in before calling police, instead he said "our monitoring center will activate the microphones in the control pads and attempt to hear if there is a burglary in progress.
This really bugged the **** out of me because I can't imagine that someone working in the monitoring facility isn't going to get bored and decide to listen in on the goings on inside peoples homes. Much worse, my inner conspiracy theorist is asking, how do I know the government isn't using these systems to get homeowners to bug their own homes for them?
Does anyone else share my concerns? recommendations? I'm almost tempted to just offer the ADT guy $20 to leave me some window decals and a yard sign and leave it at that.
This really bugged the **** out of me because I can't imagine that someone working in the monitoring facility isn't going to get bored and decide to listen in on the goings on inside peoples homes. Much worse, my inner conspiracy theorist is asking, how do I know the government isn't using these systems to get homeowners to bug their own homes for them?
Does anyone else share my concerns? recommendations? I'm almost tempted to just offer the ADT guy $20 to leave me some window decals and a yard sign and leave it at that.