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Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If the data were properly encrypted and could only be decrypted by the client on their own device

Yeah, but part of Wyze's sales pitch is their AI image recognition features, and they'd lose all training data by doing that and would force it to be processed locally, both of which would be a dead end.

I realize these might not be features you want nor care about... but those are the features they want to offer.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Even just encrypting it before transmission would have prevented this, and still allowed them to harvest data.