There’s a new trend in photography: using your camera to take pictures of yourself without taking any precautions. And if you’re not careful, your camera might be uploading these pictures to the internet without your knowledge or consent. This is a serious issue because if someone can access these pictures, they could use them for blackmail or other purposes. So, if you’re ever feeling like taking some unsecured photos of yourself, be sure to take some precautions first. Here are a few tips:
- Use a password or other security measures on your camera. This will help protect your data and ensure that the pictures you take are only those that you want to share with the world.
- Make sure that your phone is locked when you’re taking pictures. This will help keep the picture files safe and secure on your computer.
- Use a tripod or other stable device to take pictures. This will help keep the picture files from moving around and making them vulnerable to theft or damage.
A reported security hole in Eufy’s security cameras and video doorbells was highlighted by security expert Paul Moore. Moore said his Eufy camera was uploading pictures of his face, and identifiable user information, to the cloud, despite him not having used a Cloud Storage subscription. This was followed up by someone else mentioning that the data uploaded isn’t even encrypted, making matters worse — one of the promises of Eufy’s cameras, alongside local storage, is that whatever it does record will be fully encrypted within your device.
The reason for this? If you turn on motion notifications with thumbnails, your Eufy camera will take those pictures and temporarily upload them to a server to relay them to you. Regardless, the company will be more careful with its handling of user data, and disclose things better, from now on. In a statement to Android Central, it said that it was “revising the push notifications option language in the eufy Security app to clearly detail that push notifications with thumbnails require preview images that will be temporarily stored in the cloud.”
If you have motion notifications with thumbnails enabled, you’ll still have these images uploaded to the cloud. You’ll have to turn that option off if you want fully local recordings.
Source: Gizmodo, Android Central
