If the camera was used for surveillance and the surveillance pictures got indexed by the gallery app, why were there only "half a dozen random photos"? One woul

If the camera was used for surveillance and the surveillance pictures got indexed by the gallery app, why were there only "half a dozen random photos"? One would expect something like scheduled pictures on some timer. A surveillance camera that over its lifetime took 6 blurry photos at random times does not seem like a meaningful surveillance tool, and "it actually took lots of pictures but only a handful of them accidentally wound up in the gallery" only works in a very lay understanding of technology. I know there is a strong human impulse to paint the situation in black and white as evil megacorp versus hapless but plucky workers uncovering its scheme, but despite the workers surely being the more sympathetic side in this dispute my first instinct would be to check if, along with the exposed gallery app, the machine doesn't also have an exposed camera app somewhere, which the labor organisers could have used to take these half a dozen pictures before "exposing" them to galvanise support. Second most likely theory would be some seldom-triggered code path in the coffee machine making it snap a diagnostic picture when it detects excessive vibration, intermittent power loss or some other disturbance.