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A camera pointing at your face should be assumed to be turned on and recording you. A camera pointing at your face hooked up to the Internet should be assumed
by esotericn 8y ago
A camera pointing at your face should be assumed to be turned on and recording you.
A camera pointing at your face hooked up to the Internet should be assumed to be broadcasting that information to the world.
We know this intuitively. Humans dislike eye contact from strangers because of what it implies. Cameras don't hit the same basic reflexes (likely because we've optimized them that way).
If we haven't done a good enough job of educating users on that, we need to address it. The UK Government run cybersecurity adverts occasionally. I don't think they go far enough.
I tell everyone I encounter to assume the worst case unless proven otherwise.
The purveyors of a commercial product aren't going to detail these things unless forced. See 'everything else ever' - food, drink, medicine, ...
- cgriswald 8y agoI wonder if this is a generational thing. I'm gen x and cameras absolutely hit the 'same basic reflexes' for me. When someone has their camera/phone out I sense where it is looking at least as much as I sense where people's eyes are looking. My millenial girlfriend, my youngest siblings and cousins, etc., don't seem to be aware; nor do they have the same ideas of rudeness/politeness with camera use that I have.
- freehunter 8y agoMy wife and I are both millennials and all the time she'll be playing with a Snapchat filter holding her phone straight out, and I'll ask her why she's filming me. From the back of the phone, it's completely indistinguishable.