News Summary

• Anker, the Chinese company that makes Eufy security cameras, offered its users money in exchange for videos of package and car thefts.
• The company’s goal was to collect 20,000 videos each of package thefts and of “pulling car doors” Since then, the company has similar campaigns aimed at incentivizing its customers to send in videos to train their AI models.
• While this gives some users the ability to get value out of their own data, there are security and privacy risks involved.