Your Wyze webcam might have let other owners peek into your house – The Verge
A Wyze customer support agent confirmed to me that the company has an issue with its online camera portal —… read more
Your Smart Devices Are Trying to Manipulate You With ‘Dark Patterns’ – Consumer Reports
At first glance, many dark patterns seem like mere annoyances. One common trick, for example, is to display a preselected… read more
Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars – Reuters
But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos… read more
The world’s biggest surveillance company you’ve never heard of – MIT Technology Review
You may never have heard of Hikvision, but chances are you’ve already been captured by one of its millions of… read more
Roving Eyes – Real Life Magazine
While pitched as protecting property, it’s plain even in its own promotional video that Canopy is designed to keep bodies… read more
Who’s watching? How governments used the pandemic to normalize surveillance – LATimes
Sensors, meters and cameras inside and outside will hum in around-the-clock surveillance. The technology-laden “smart city” being built on the… read more
Amazon’s controversial vision for the future of your home security – CNN
But Amazon’s decision to expand its offerings in this product category comes at a time of widespread scrutiny of the… read more
Facebook Is Making Camera Glasses, Ha Ha Oh No – Buzzfeed News
But this obscures a bigger problem. Your data and images may be safe from the prying eyes of Mark Zuckerberg,… read more
The Amazon Panopticon Comes for Whole Foods – Gizmodo
Of course, this is assuming you want to use the tech. When Whole Foods customers opt-in to the convenience of… read more
Smart Surveillance, special issue of Surveillance & Society
This special issue, edited by David Murakami Wood and Valerie Steeves, explores problematics of “smart surveillance” across a variety of… read more