Dashcams are sold as safety devices, but a Nine News investigation has uncovered a major privacy risk affecting one Australian brand. Some models are broadcasting users' live camera feeds and exact locations publicly online and many owners may have no idea it's happening. Drivers are now being urged to check their privacy settings to ensure their footage isn't exposed. | *Subscribe and 🔔: http://9Soci.al/KM6e50GjSK9* *Get more breaking news at 9News.com.au: http://9Soci.al/iyCO50GjSK6* FOLLOW 9News Australia ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/9News/ ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/9news/ Join 9News for the latest in news and events that affect you in your local city, as well as news from across Australia and the world. #9News #BreakingNews #NineNewsAustralia #9NewsAU
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This is an absolutely scandalous breach of privacy.
Massive breach of privacy, your private conversations, your home, your kids. Was going to buy this dash cam but no way! And this is not a Chinese company either!
This is an important story.
National security issues here and the government is not aware!!?
And they say I'm paranoid 😂
The government want this, why do you think they're building so many Data Centres, corporate Australia doesn't need that much computing power. Mass surveillance incoming.
No wonder so many people r getting broken into
What the hell? ...and that's the most expensive brand! Geez!😮
Oh god what a gross invasion of privacy
Meanwhile, the Australian government is monitoring you with endless speed cameras, seat belt cameras, phone cameras etc etc - & everyone is ok with that. Go figure
"It operates within the guidelines of the Australian cyber security Act" speaks volumes
Sadly anything with a camera or microphone can be accessed by others nowadays
A massive privacy breach is like somebody else is spying on you via device.
What about the license plate scanning cameras that have popped up all over the Perth suburbs in the last couple of years?
I smell a major lawsuit coming
we been doing this for many years, I been spying on cctv cameras online since like 2005, my first ones were the israel cameras on the gaza border fence watching israel commit crimes against humanity.
As someone in the IT industry for 20+ years, why would the dash cam company even set this up? What use case is there for everyone's dash cams to be publicly available and accessible? This was done intentionally for no apparent real world use case except a blatant disrespect for privacy "because we could" almost like a troll act
And this is why corporations like government don’t want people going off the grid. It’s no different to why governments and these same corporations don’t like you using real cash gives them less power to know everything you’re doing and where you are.
Something is not right here with this story, those cameras require active connection to the internet to broadcast, is this going through a users phone or a sim installed in camera?
Perhaps change the headline from "camera" to "DASHCAM"