Surveillance culture and unforeseen consequences
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 3:01 pm
So a groups of hackers breeched surveillance company Verkarda's security had got access to ~150,000 web-controllable cameras.
The Washington Post reports:
The Washington Post reports:
andThe cache includes real-world images and videos as well as the company’s voluminous client list, which names more than 24,000 organizations across a vast cross-section of American life, including schools, offices, gyms, banks, health clinics and county jails.
The Silicon Valley company’s hardware connects to the Internet via Verkada’s cloud service, allowing customers to not just watch and store the real-time video from anywhere, but also to use the company’s artificial-intelligence features to track people as they move about the real world.
Verkada’s “People Analytics” software lets customers automatically search for a person across the building or campus — by the look of their face, the color of their clothes, whether they’re wearing a backpack, or their “apparent sex” — then track that person’s movement from room to room.