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stuckindoors | 3 years ago

The YouTuber "thehookup" - an home automation guys - has a video worth watching.

It provides an view that the linux tech tips and the security researcher initially made the discoveries may have missed.

Long story short - EUFY was attempting to maintain a balance and use of use.

The hot take may not be the correct one.

https://youtu.be/a_rAXF_btvE

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zamalek|3 years ago

TL;DW: the "cloud" that everyone is up in arms about is just a rendezvous/temporary storage for mobile notifications.

Facial recognition identifiers are not uploaded if you turn the facial recognition feature off. Identifiers are not known to correlate across accounts, and so potentially obfuscate instead of correlate.

This is likely a reasonably private system that any one of us could have designed. It all comes down to the retention policy (which is not known).