Image surveillance and reporting technology

A system comprising:

• one or more computing devices;
• and
• one or more storage devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform operations comprising:
• detecting a potential alarm event at a property;
• identifying a security rule that controls transmission of images by defining a threshold used to limit a number of images that are transmitted during a time period after the potential alarm event is detected;
• determining, using the security rule, that transmitting one or more images captured by a camera at the property during the potential alarm event will violate the security rule;
• and
• in response to determining that the security rule will be violated and the threshold exceeded if the one or more images are transmitted, discarding the one or more images instead of transmitting the one or more images.

At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

• detecting a potential alarm event at a property;
• identifying a security rule that controls transmission of images by defining a threshold used to limit a number of images that are transmitted during a time period after the potential alarm event is detected;
• determining, using the security rule, that transmitting one or more images captured by a camera at the property during the potential alarm event will violate the security rule and exceed the threshold;
• and
• in response to determining that the security rule will be violated and the threshold exceeded if the one or more images are transmitted, discarding the one or more images instead of transmitting the one or more images.