Live Eye Pays Remote Workers to Spy

CYBER

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4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Imagine you’re at work, it’s a long day and you lean back in your chair only to hear a chime and a disembodied voice.The voice fills the room and it tells you to stop leaning and get back to work.

There’s a sense that someone is always watching and ready to reprimand you for the slightest infraction.

That’s the promise of Live Eye—a CCTV camera system which, for a monthly fee, will monitor a store's security cameras 24/7 and step in if there’s trouble. It sells itself as a safety feature, but as a new report from Motherboard's Todd Feathers’ shows …. It’s anything but safe.

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0:00.0	Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.
0:10.8	It's a unit system.
0:13.1	I know this.
0:15.1	It's all the files of the whole park.
0:17.3	It tells her everything.
0:19.1	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.8	Eagle One.
0:22.6	The package is being delivered.
0:24.5	I'm Matthew Galt in for Ben Maku, and this is cyber.
0:30.1	It's the end of a long shift, and your friend, fellow co-worker, comes to give you a right home.
0:34.9	You're both behind the counter.
0:36.3	No one is in the store.
0:37.3	Then, there's a chime above your head.
0:41.3	A voice fills the room. Someone you've never met. They ask who this new person is and why they're behind the counter.
0:47.3	Can't please confirm the identity of the person who's standing behind the counter with you?
0:52.3	The voice reminds you that employees aren't allowed behind the counter if they aren't on duty.
0:58.0	Okay, could you please make sure that they are straining on the opposite side of the counter?
1:03.0	All right, thank you. Sorry about that.
1:05.0	This is the promise of Live-Eye, a CCTV camera system which, for a monthly fee, will monitor a store security
1:13.1	cameras 24-7 and step in if there's trouble, or a slight employee infraction.
1:19.6	It sells itself as a safety feature, but as a new report for motherboard's Todd Feathers shows,
1:26.6	it's anything but safe.
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