I had this gig once at one of the biggest travel review sites in the country. At this job, I was paid to look at user posts, particularly photographs, and flag anything suspicious.
As you can imagine, I saw some really weird things over the course of my employment with this company. Naked people. Lots and lots of naked people. Shots taken underneath toilets. Spiders. Machine guns. And at least one review of a user’s trip… to the moon.
The crazy thing is that those are just the things that people submitted voluntarily. Now imagine what might happen to images or video of you or your family if a bad guy breaks into your fancy new smart home camera. It’s definitely a thought that will skeeve you out if you think about it enough. So, let’s take a closer look at smart camera privacy and see what you can be doing better to protect yourself.
The basic problem with smart camera privacy
We cover these kinds of cameras all the time, so if you’ve spent even a few minutes here at Digital Trends, you’ve certainly seen our articles on smart cameras like Alphabet’s Nest line of smart home equipment, Amazon’s Cloud Cam, and a variety of crowdfunded startup products that vary widely in quality. The trick here is that these kinds of cameras are both WiFi-enabled and usually accessible over ..
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