Hi everyone. Sorry I’m new here, but i just hope to raise awareness about this (what I believe is bad privacy practice by a company (in this case Black Vue Dashcams (https://www.blackvue.com.au/)) . I’m sorry if this is not allowed/ sub-standard of this forum.
Am i missing something or this is super dodgy practice of Black Vue: they have a feature where the user can broadcast his/her dashcam (complete with audio) to the whole world. Even if it’s an opt-in feature, who would in their right mind enable this feature?
What makes it worse is that Black Vue seems to be selling customer’s video data, because they sell ‘unlimited minutes’ of viewing said customers’ data for a monthly subscription fee (viewing up to 10 minutes / day is free with a free Black Vue account (you dont even need to be a Black Vue dashcam owner to create said free Black Vue account).
Thank you all.
More references:
- Andy Gill on X: "Genuinely who thought this was a good idea, locate your camera via the cloud with pin point accuracy. Feels like the car alarm research all over again 🙈 https://t.co/KoyP3dlFJS" / X
- BlackVue's dashcams broadcast users' live location and footage to public | Mashable
- BlackVue dashcams: Dashcam company could be putting customers’ privacy at risk | Nine.com.au
