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Anything with a camera that can connect to the internet and sold as a retail product could be spying. The problem with Government and Company surveillance is th

Anything with a camera that can connect to the internet and sold as a retail product could be spying. The problem with Government and Company surveillance is that if a device has a camera and can connect to the internet somehow, it might as well be sending unauthorized information to someone who is not the purchaser of that device. It shouldn't be that surprising to all of us here that there are Chinese internet connected security camera with IR that costs less than just the RPI camera module. Some of them even have free cloud storage offering! You can make a case of economies of scale and expertise and what not but on a economic level you have to at least entertain the idea that there is the possibility of these devices are generating revenue somehow after sales.

123pie123 5y ago
>it might as well be sending unauthorized information to someone who is not the purchaser of that device. It shouldn't matter, getting hundreds of thousands of cameras collecting at least images/ video streams +wifi information and who knows what other sensors are in the cameras. Also this will lead to countries almost having blanket covereage. I've counted at least 10 to 20 cameras that I walk past on the way to my local pub (and also in almost every bloody pub and shops!!!!). if these are fitted near military bases extra bonus for intelligence finding!! I'm surprised that other countries are not subsidising almost free cameras to other countries(eg with free cloud storage), so that they could obtain this amount of intelligence