Solicitor who specialises in data protection Fred Logue tweetz:
This has to be the maddest thing ever. I would say none of these people know that CCTV is live streaming from this church.
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Thatsmyname writes:
I came across a story about a Russian surveillance website, that broadcasts unsecured webcams online. After checking it out, I found there are almost 60 feeds for Ireland, including one sitting just above a baby’s cot, from somewhere near Kells [Co Meath]. It may not be exactly precise, but it pinpoints on a map where this camera is located. I find this really creepy and disturbing. As a mother, I know I certainly wouldn’t want my kids and privacy violated like this. This is wrong. You may not want to publish the link [below], but you can see for yourself. The website link is a screen grab of what was broadcast when I checked it out. Someone in Kells needs to know that their child is being broadcast online!
Anyone?
Previously: Everything To See Here
UPDATE:
The front page, and two-page spread of an investigation into the matter by Ben Haugh in the Irish Mail on Sunday on Sunday, September 21, 2014.
Thanks IMOS
Ever wonder what it’s like to be in the International Space Station?
Now you can view our planet LIVE via the ISS webcams.
I can see my house…
Watch here.
Hello you.
Mark Dennehhy writes:
Seems the GCHQ [UK intelligence] were watching all of us through our webcams from 2008 to 2012 and shipping the data back to the NSA. And 3% to 11% of the images “contained undesirable nudity” (begging the question, what do the NSA class as “desirable nudity”?). …Charles Stross, sci-fi writer of some renown from Scotland, has the best take yet on this:
Turns out, UK law on child pornography and the GCHQ’s status as a defence agency and not a law enforcement agency, makes for a bad combination from GCHQ’s perspective (they may just have become the worst case study in child pornography in the history of the UK).
And the automatic porn filters that GCHQ were trying to use on the images collected should result in future Al Queda videoconferences being held “in the nude, on Yahoo! video chat” :D
GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide (Guardian)
(BBC)
A hacker was able to shout abuse at a two-year-old child by exploiting a vulnerability in a camera advertised as an ideal “baby monitor”. A couple in Houston, Texas, heard a voice saying lewd comments coming from the camera, made by manufacturer Foscam. Vulnerabilities in Foscam products were exposed in April, and the company issued an emergency fix. Foscam said it was unable to provide a statement at this time.
ABC News reported that Marc Gilbert and wife Lauren were left shaken when they heard a “British or European accent” coming from the camera. Mr Gilbert said the voice directed offensive, sexualised words at their daughter Allyson, who was asleep in bed. The family believed the hacker was able to call the child by her name because it was spelt out on the bedroom’s wall…
Hacker ‘shouts abuse’ via Foscam baby monitoring camera (Dave Lee, BBC News)
Previously: Everyone Remain Cam
