The YouTuber "thehookup" - an home automation guys - has a video worth watching.<p>It provides an view that the linux tech tips and the security researcher initially made the discoveries may have missed.<p>Long story short - EUFY was attempting to maintain a balance and use of use.<p>The hot take may not be the correct one.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/a_rAXF_btvE" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/a_rAXF_btvE</a>
This article triggers some thoughts for me, as a person who has developmental prosopagnosia[1].<p>In my ideal utopia I will wear (normal) glasses which include a tiny camera in the frame. When I'm in a gathering of people I would be able to frown or scrunch my nose which would trigger the camera to take an image of the person I'm looking at. The image uploads somewhere where some facial recognition software runs and returns a name to me - possibly in audio form (like a whisper in my ear). The image is not retained, but I would have the information I need to start/continue a conversation with that person without looking like an idiot for not remembering who they were in the first place.<p>There's barrel-loads of privacy concerns around this ideal utopia of mine. But I'm selfish and fed up with my disability which has, in the past, caused me serious social anxiety.<p>[1] - Also known as face blindness: <a href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/face-blindness/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/face-blindness/</a>
Just moved from Ring to Eufy precisely because I preferred everything to be stored locally and not with Amazon and their dubious reputation w.r.t. sharing data.<p>I suspect that Eufy is thinking the “no cloud” marketing positioning appeals to people merely because they don’t want to pay for a subscription. For customers like me who chose them for privacy reasons this is hugely damaging.