{"id":394895,"date":"2019-02-01T21:28:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T20:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-floor-lamp-sparks-privacy-concerns\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T21:28:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T20:28:30","slug":"prison-planet-com-floor-lamp-sparks-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-floor-lamp-sparks-privacy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Floor Lamp Sparks Privacy Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Lamp can discretely record room in full HD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kit Daniels<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>Feb. 1, 2019<\/p>\n<p>A new floor lamp by Panasonic has sparked privacy concerns due to its \u2018secret\u2019 security camera which can record a room discretely.<\/p>\n<p>The HomeHawk FLOOR lamp has a small camera with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/panasonic-homehawk-floor-camera-ambient-light#\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">numerous features<\/a>: a 140-degree wide-angle lens, full HD and night recording modes, motion sensor technology and the ability to remotely view footage in live time through a mobile app.<\/p>\n<p>Panasonic is marketing the floor lamp as a home monitoring camera.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KIygEUYzOc8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The floor lamp currently doesn\u2019t support cloud storage, meaning that footage is saved to a MicroSD card, but that hasn\u2019t dampened fears from an online tech magazine that the lamp could be abused as a spy camera in addition to its use as a home security system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink about where these things could be placed, spying on us without us knowing it: Doctor\u2019s offices, rental houses, public bathrooms, the living rooms or bedrooms of our significant others, hotel rooms,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/home\/everything-spying-on-us\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> Kim Wetzel with Digital Trends. \u201cIf home surveillance technology is making its way into a benign floor lamp, what\u2019s next? A spying couch?\u201d<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Maybe this isn\u2019t as big of a deal as the HomeHawk catching you dancing in your underwear at a hotel, but it does feel invasive nonetheless \u2013 much more so than a simple surveillance camera mounted in the corner of the store to record robberies,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>On a similar note, for the past several years a variety of news outlets have been reporting on privacy concerns with \u201csmart technology,\u201d particularly household appliances which are connected to the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Wired.com, for example, ran a 2012 article entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2012\/03\/petraeus-tv-remote\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CIA Chief: We\u2019ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, however, NBC Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2019\/01\/31\/chicago-family-watched-nest-security-cameras\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that a homeowner\u2019s Nest security cameras were taken over by hackers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight as I approached the baby\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/floor-lamp-sparks-privacy-concerns.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamp can discretely record room in full HD Kit DanielsPrison Planet.comFeb. 1, 2019 A new floor lamp by Panasonic has sparked privacy concerns due to its \u2018secret\u2019 security camera which can record a room discretely. The HomeHawk FLOOR lamp has a small camera with numerous features: a 140-degree wide-angle lens, full HD and night recording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}