{"id":1258,"date":"2014-10-31T13:48:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T13:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:17:03","slug":"people-are-unwittingly-turning-their-homes-into-big-brother-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/people-are-unwittingly-turning-their-homes-into-big-brother-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"People Are Unwittingly Turning Their Homes Into “Big Brother Houses”"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the advent of cheap home-surveillance cameras, combined with an absence of understanding of information hygiene, millions of people are unwittingly turning their homes into Big Brother houses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are many nice consumer-grade net cameras (netcams) available now. They allow for an easy set-up to record any unsolicited intrusion into your home, to deter burglars and similar. Most, if not all, of them are sold with the promise of hassle-free setup: \u201cWhen the camera detects motion, images from your home is automatically sent to an app on your phone so you can\u2026 [random marketing words of warm fuzzy feeling].\u201d<\/p>\n

This, exactly at this point, is where alarm bells should be going off in everybody\u2019s head. Red flares. Klaxons. Air raid-level warnings.<\/p>\n

So images from the camera you just bought are leaving your home network.<\/em><\/p>\n

So the camera is not under your control<\/em>, as designed.<\/p>\n

So you\u2019re providing a live video feed to somewhere<\/em>, and that somewhere gets to send you images of your own home to your phone. This means that everything that happens in your home can be seen by somebody else, and since those images have already left your control, you have absolutely no idea who else is also given permission to see a live feed directly into your home. You just turned your home into a \u201cBig Brother\u201d house.<\/p>\n

\"D-Link\u201cRemote Viewing: View on iPhone, iPad or Android with mydlink app or mydlink.com\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Most people are completely oblivious of the concept of information hygiene \u2013 awareness of which information travels where, and therefore, who can see, access, store, and share that information. Some have approached me to say how convenient it is that they can see live video feeds from their home, or from a room in their home, directly in an app on their phone.<\/p>\n

Who else can watch the feed from this surveillance camera in your home?<\/strong>, I ask them.<\/p>\n

They typically don\u2019t understand the question.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the camera that provides this feed to your phone. The camera is not capable of that, unless you programmed it with your phone number, which you didn\u2019t. It\u2019s a company that accesses your camera and sends these images from your camera to your phone. Who at that company can also watch your camera\u2019s video feed?<\/strong>, I ask.<\/p>\n

At this point you can usually see people\u2019s faces go blank as they\u2019re confronted with something they didn\u2019t consider. Some start to pale a little \u2013 you can see them mentally rewinding and replaying everything that happened in view of that camera.<\/p>\n

And as a follow-up question, whom is that company giving permission to look into your home in their turn? It might not be consensual. For example, is it possible that the government is forcing that company to provide them with a feed?<\/strong><\/p>\n

At this point, people typically shake their heads. No, the government would never do that. No, no, and a thousand nopes.<\/p>\n

Are you sure? Do you even know which government the company is operating under?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Somewhere around this point, the scale of the problem starts to become apparent in the discussion.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just cameras. The Indiegogo project \u201cGoji Smart Lock\u201d<\/a> has a similar gotcha. It\u2019s supposed to be a lock to your house which opens by smartphone and where you can issue time-limited, personalized keys, the works. Everything sounds perfect and really innovative with this house lock, until you read this line:<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Goji, you will never be locked out of your home. We have customer service representatives available 24\/7 to help you lock or unlock your home remotely in case something happens to your phone \u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026at which point anybody aware of information hygiene realizes that this \u201clock\u201d is under the manufacturer\u2019s control and not yours<\/em>, which by definition makes it not a lock at all. The worst part about it is that it\u2019s supposed to be a feature<\/em> that you\u2019re not the one in ultimate control of access to your own home, just like it\u2019s supposed to be a feature that the company selling cameras for your home are also able to watch them for you.<\/p>\n

Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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