Maybe it's because people are becoming more privacy-conscious these days, but everyone seems to be doubling down on surveillance systems for their homes and vehicles. If you haven’t seen that dash cam video of the staged car crash scam, you really should — it's definitely a wake-up call for the need to document everything.

Black Friday is a week away, and while I expect to see many better deals from the event through Cyber Monday, I have made a list of my top 5 Black Friday camera deals under $800 that you simply can't ignore now!

Mid-month of November is when you start to see prices really start to pick up, and then Black Friday is when everything is going to really get discounted,” says Samantha Gordon, deals editor at Consumer Reports.