A camera that remembers what happened.
Never who.
SecuraCV is a small home device called a Canary. It works like a witness, not a security camera: it writes down what happened in a record you can trust and check — and it never keeps a pile of video of everyone who walked past.
Each scene stays up long enough to read. Want a little sound with it? The button in the header turns on soft, synthesized cues — off by default.
Most cameras watch.
An ordinary camera records everyone who passes — you, your kids, the neighbor, the delivery driver — and keeps all of it. Hours a day. Usually on a company's servers, behind a monthly fee.
- All that footage can be searched later to find out who was there.
- Whoever gets in gets all of it — a leak, a new policy, a stolen password.
- "Privacy mode" is just a setting — and settings can be switched back off.
So what would a camera look like if it couldn't do that?
A Canary witnesses instead.
Think of the difference between a security tape and a good neighbor. The tape keeps everything. The neighbor just tells you: "someone came to your door around two." A Canary is the neighbor — and it's built so it can't say who.
A watcher
A witness
How can a camera not know who it saw? Here's the trick.
Pictures go in. Sentences come out.
Inside every Canary is a strict gatekeeper. Each picture has to pass through it before anything is saved or sent — and only a short sentence makes it out the other side.
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The picture
Held for a moment, in a locked box. There's no normal way to look at it.
never leaves -
A blurry glance
Just enough to notice movement and shapes. Not enough to copy a face.
never leaves -
What is it?
A person, a car, an animal, a package. Never which person.
never leaves -
One sentence
"Person · front door · 2–3 pm." A rough time, a place, no identity.
this is all that comes out -
Into the record
Signed, and linked to the entry before it, so it can be checked later.
stays in your home
That record is the whole point. So how do you know nobody has quietly edited it?
Change one line, and the whole record tells on you.
Each entry carries a fingerprint of the one before it, like links in a chain. Edit or delete anything and the links stop matching — and a quick check says so, loudly.
- Anyone can run that check — you, your insurer, a lawyer — with no account and no internet.
- We call this tamper-evident. We don't promise nobody can ever meddle. We promise that meddling shows.
And the things you'd worry about most? They were never built in the first place.
No privacy switch — there's nothing to turn off.
Other cameras ask you to trust a setting. Here, the creepy features were simply never built. Face recognition isn't turned off — it doesn't exist. So nobody can turn it back on: not you, not a hacker, not us.
Fair question, though: what if there's a break-in and you need the video?
Then several people you trust unlock it together.
The pictures do sit in a locked vault for a short while. After a real break-in, you break the glass: a few people you chose in advance each say yes, the vault opens for a limited time, and every step is written down.
- No one person can open it alone — not you, and not the company that makes it.
- What comes out is a file that proves itself — an insurer or a lawyer can check it without any special software.
Pick your trusted people early and practice once. It's a fire drill — not something to figure out on the worst day.
One more thing: none of this runs on our servers.
It lives in your home. Not in someone's cloud.
Your Canaries talk to each other and to a small box in your home. The record never leaves the house.
- No account. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to get hacked.
- No subscription. Nothing to keep paying, ever.
- No reporting home. We never see what your Canary sees.
- Open source. Every line of code is public. Don't take our word — check it.
The few times it does go online, it carries nothing about you: a Canary checks a public page for software updates, and the wall screens set their clocks from public time servers. The full list is on the privacy page.
So, putting it all together — why would you want one?
Everything you actually wanted a camera for.
You wanted to know what happened, and to prove it if you ever had to. You never needed a stranger's face on a server for that.
Know what happened
"Package at the front door, 8–8:15." "Car in the driveway." The answer, without scrubbing through hours of video.
Proof when it counts
A record an insurer, a landlord or a court can check for themselves — one that shows if anyone has tampered with it.
Care without a camera
Canary Sense notices presence and breathing using radar, with no camera at all — for a bedroom, or an aging parent's home.
Nothing to leak
No face database, no cloud archive, no account to break into. What was never collected can't be leaked, sold or handed over.
It's real, it's open, and it's still being built.
SecuraCV works today, and it's a work in progress. We'd rather tell you exactly where it stands than oversell it.
Nothing here is legal or security advice. These protections depend on the computer running them not being hacked — the threat model spells out what survives and what doesn't.