Surveillance Cameras Made by Chinese Government Are Hanging All Over the U.S.

[araomd]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/survei...china-are-hanging-all-over-the-u-s-1510513949

Hikvision (pronounced “hike-vision”) was nurtured by Beijing to help keep watch on its 1.4 billion citizens, part of a vast expansion of its domestic-surveillance apparatus. In the process, the little-known company has become the world’s largest maker of surveillance cameras. It has sold equipment used to track French airports, an Irish port and sites in Brazil and Iran.

“The fact that it’s at a U.S. military installation and was in a very sensitive U.S. embassy is stunning,” says Carolyn Bartholomew, chairwoman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which was created by Congress to monitor the national-security implications of trade with China. “We shouldn’t presume that there are benign intentions in the use of information-gathering technology that is funded directly or indirectly by the Chinese government.”

 

[araomd]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-CCTV-giant-spies-people-root-dissidents.html

 

[sparked1]

The hardware is questionable enough, but even more scary are the video monitoring and recording apps which are hosted on Chinese servers (that usually come bundled with these cameras and drones). Talk about stupidity. Hopefully, this creates an opportunity for American companies to step it up.

 

[DanKATL]

It's not just cameras. Do you know where your data is? Millions of people blindly sign up for "cloud" hosted services without questioning where and how their data will actually be housed. Let alone who's actually providing the service.

 

[jeep78]

But Americans think nothing of carrying a tracking device in their pocket that goes everywhere they go. It also has the capability to listen in to any and all conversations.

 

[DanKATL]

But Americans think nothing of carrying a tracking device in their pocket that goes everywhere they go. It also has the capability to listen in to any and all conversations.

And without reading them, they're agreed to the EULA for multiple aps on those devices granting them blanket permission to do whatever they want with that "data".

 

[BAR64]

More amazing is that even if there were a major awareness campaign to alert everyone to these facts - which have been going on for years, pushing decades - most people wouldn't care.

So yeah, push every photo, contact, message, email and more right on up because its "free". Or "convenient". "save" your data.

Now, go buy a new $1K cell phone with facial recognition. ...and they will.