UK Police stop people for covering their faces from facial recognition camera then fine man £90 after he protested

Metropolitan Police had said people declining to be scanned would 'not necessarily be viewed as suspicious'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/facial-recognition-cameras-technology-london-trial-met-police-face-cover-man-fined-a8756936.html


#uk #cctv #biometric #facial #recognition #camera #why

#Qualcomm #Camera #Multimedia driver bringup guide for #MSM8909 #MSM8916 #MSM8992 #MSM8994 #MSM8x36

Browser activating the front-facing camera: Big Brother or just a bug?

This post is about a disturbing (in terms of privacy) situation that we have recently encountered.

Here’s what happened: we were approached by one of our readers, who claimed that when he was reading our website (which, ironically, has the BanCam anti-facial recognition campaign banner on a main page), the front-facing camera was activated.

📺 https://youtu.be/JVrfUhc6l0M

👉🏽 Read more:
https://medium.com/@mva.name/browser-activating-the-front-facing-camera-big-brother-or-just-a-bug-e7a2ff9d6856


#Google #camera #popup #DeleteGoogle #PoC #video
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@BlackBox_Archiv

Huawei built a poorly hidden, insecure backdoor into surveillance equipment that uses its HiSilicon subsidiary's chips

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/04/hisilicon_camera_backdoor


#huawei #backdoor #cam #security #camera #surveillance #why

According to a report in Android Police, Android 11, the next version of the world’s most popular mobile operating system, will prevent apps from using third-party camera software to take photos. Instead, the phone’s default built-in camera app will have to be used.

When taking photos, current versions of Android allow apps to display a pop-up camera picker from which the user can select their preferred camera app. However, this option has been removed in Android 11. 

This means users who installed popular camera apps such as VSCO, Adobe Lightroom or A Better Camera, will have to revert to their phone’s built-in camera software when taking photos or video from within another app. Users will still be free to use any camera app they wish by launching it directly. Only the camera picker option is affected.

The new restriction exists to prevent apps from grabbing your location without permission. Even if an app has been denied access to your location data, it’s still possible to circumvent this restriction when using third-party camera apps.

The problem arises because camera apps typically embed location data within their image files, and without the new restriction there’s no way to prevent this information from being returned to the calling app along with the photo. 

While I can understand Google’s reasoning here, the current solution feels like an unnecessary inconvenience that doesn’t completely solve the problem. Disabling the camera picker doesn’t prevent images, complete with embedded location data, from being uploaded from the gallery instead.

Anyone updating to a new version of Android will surely be surprised and frustrated to find such a convenient feature removed, so I hope a more elegant solution can be found sooner rather than later. A simple way for advanced users to re-enable the camera picker would probably do just fine.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulmonckton/2020/08/22/google-android-11-camera-picker-privacy

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/08/20/android-11-camera-apps-chooser


#Google #camera #gcam #Android #Android11

PhotonCamera

Android Camera that uses Enhanced Image Processing

https://github.com/eszdman/PhotonCamera

Support groups:
English https://t.me/PhotonCameraEN
Russian https://t.me/PhotonCamera

Download
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.particlesdevs.photoncamera


#PhotonCamera #cam #camera

GrapheneOS Camera

Based on Android's CameraX library

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera

#camera #photo

Camera v12

GrapheneOS Camera based on Android's CameraX library.

Download - https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera/releases/download/12/Camera-12.apk

Source Code - https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera/

#camera

@foss_Android

Camera v13

GrapheneOS Camera based on Android's CameraX library.

Download - https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera/releases/download/13/Camera-13.apk

Source Code - https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera/

#camera

@foss_Android

FreeDcam
FreeDCam is an open source camera app which try to enable stuff that is forgotten by the manufacturers

FreeDCam is an OpenSource Camera App
Supported API's:
-Camera 1
-Camera 2
-PlayMemories (Sony ILC WIFI Remote API)

Download - https://github.com/KillerInk/FreeDcam/releases

https://github.com/KillerInk/FreeDcam

#new #camera

@foss_Android

🇵🇸 A Boy, A Wall and A Donkey by Hany Abu-Assad | 2008

Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Hany Abu Assad | 4 minutes

Intent on making a film, a group of young boys don't let limited resources
stand in their way. They decide to go where the cameras are... AbuAssad's
(Paradise Now, Rana's Wedding, Ford Transit) short was produced under the
auspices of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights as part of a collection of works by artists from around the world.

#Palestine #OPT #TheWall #Wall #WallOfSeperation #Occupation #WestBank #ShortFilm #Documentary #Fiction #Film #Camera #Surveillance
#Apartheid

https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/02/08/security-camera-privacy-hacking/

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/em-eye-characterizing-electromagnetic-side-channel-eavesdropping-on-embedded-cameras/

#security #camera #webcam

.
Google's Pixel / GCam is a great, easy to use, feature rich camera app that competes well with the excellent open source Open Camera. GCam brings things like portrait mode, and easy to use slow-motion.

Because of this, there are many developers porting the app to work on as many phones as possible. GCam can increase the performance of your phone's hardware camera, and the ports can also bring the GCam app to DeGoogled phones.

GCam Hub is a website dedicated to tracking all the GCam ports.

Here is the 👉🏻 web page listing many Stable GCam Version:

You can work you way through the list until you find one that works on your phone, but then you may try 100 versions and never get one that works.

Keep in mind, these ports will not auto update.

Note: Shamim's SGCAM version 8.5.300 V5 works on Pixel 3a running Lineage.

If you find a version that works on your phone, let everyone know in the comments.

⚡️@LinuxTechIndex

#GCam #camera

Snap Safe

The camera that doesn’t rat you out.   
Snap Safe is an #Android #camera app that keeps every pixel—and every byte of data—exactly where it belongs: on YOUR device.

Key Features:
• Zero‑Leak Design – The manifest skips android.permission.INTERNET; nothing leaves your device.
• Fully Encrypted – Shots are written to encrypted, app‑private storage.
• Metadata Scrub‑A‑Dub – EXIF and other identifiers are wiped the instant you hit Share.
• PIN‑Locked Gallery – A separate PIN stands between curious thumbs and your photos.
• Secure Sharing – When you do share, we hand the file off via Android's native share sheet—no detours.
• Granular Location – Add coarse, fine, or zero location data—your call.
• 100% Open Source – Auditable code in plain sight.
• Poison Pill – Set a special PIN, that when entered, appears to work normally but actually deletes your existing
photos.
• Decoy Photos – Select innocuous decoy photos, these will be preserved when your Poison Pill is activated. That way
your Gallery is not suspiciously empty.

Why Snap Safe?
We capture photos locally, encrypt everything in private storage, let YOU decide if GPS tags are added (precision optional), and strip out tell‑tale metadata automatically.

We NEVER phone home or talk to servers, slurp analytics or usage stats, sprinkle ads or trackers in the code, or read files outside our sandbox.

Privacy Policy: We collect nothing.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.darkrockstudios.app.securecamera/
Photos posted on F-droid page.

Newest version on github
https://github.com/SecureCamera/SecureCameraAndroid/releases/latest

This is what they took from you
#phones #camera