I don’t want to sound like a “aluminum foil hat” guy but I’m concerned about CCTV cameras (private and public) around our towns.
All of these cameras do not send the stream to private servers (as the closed circuit would imply) but it’s sent to the manufacturers’ servers, usually in countries unfriendly to privacy regulations, let alone to human rights. I don’t think I’m in immediate danger, but I personally think they likely flow into some AI models and into some government-controlled hands in order to do whatever they want with it.
Another risk is the fact they’re very insecure.
I don’t know how to battle this. I try not to look directly into a camera when I see one, but that’s it. I wish more people would be aware of such risks.
Most are not sending video to the manufacturers servers. More likely some milestone server here and there + cloud.
Most of them do have ML accelerators to do “AI” on the edge.
We use cameras from many suppliers at work, at least 3 that are chayna based. We do log their connetions, and see very little data ourside of fw/app update checks. Might be some sinister stuff happening but its not very wide-spread.
Maybe consumer stuff is different.
Edit: also consider bamdwidth. This is the reason most places record to local NAS or server. Our ipvpn woukd be filled if we was to centralize this
Maybe not most, but some are. An old job I had used HikVision cameras, those sent continuously until I changed our router firewall.