If you’re using an Eufy camera, you might be uploading pictures that are unprotected. The Eufy camera is a great option for those who want to take pictures and videos without having to carry around a lot of equipment, but it’s possible that the pictures and videos you’re taking are being uploaded without being secured. This is a problem because unsecured pictures and videos can be accessed by anyone who wants them. This means that your photos and videos could potentially be seen by people who shouldn’t have access to them, which could be dangerous if they were to be used in a malicious way. If you’re concerned about the security of your photos and videos, it’s important to take steps to make sure they’re protected. One way to do this is to use a password protection feature on your Eufy camera. Another option is to use a secure storage service like DropBox or iCloud so that your photos and videos are stored securely. ..
A reported security hole in Eufy’s security cameras and video doorbells was highlighted by security expert Paul Moore. Moore said his Eufy camera was uploading pictures of his face, and identifiable user information, to the cloud, despite him not having used a Cloud Storage subscription. This was followed up by someone else mentioning that the data uploaded isn’t even encrypted, making matters worse — one of the promises of Eufy’s cameras, alongside local storage, is that whatever it does record will be fully encrypted within your device.
The reason for this? If you turn on motion notifications with thumbnails, your Eufy camera will take those pictures and temporarily upload them to a server to relay them to you. Regardless, the company will be more careful with its handling of user data, and disclose things better, from now on. In a statement to Android Central, it said that it was “revising the push notifications option language in the eufy Security app to clearly detail that push notifications with thumbnails require preview images that will be temporarily stored in the cloud.”
If you have motion notifications with thumbnails enabled, you’ll still have these images uploaded to the cloud. You’ll have to turn that option off if you want fully local recordings.
Source: Gizmodo, Android Central
