{"id":752877,"date":"2026-06-22T12:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752877\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:53:11","slug":"blackvue-dashcam-company-could-be-putting-customers-privacy-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752877\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackVue: Dashcam company could be putting customers\u2019 privacy at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Australian<\/a> dashcam company may be putting customers\u2019 privacy at risk, broadcasting their location and live camera feed to the world.<\/p>\n

Dashcam owner Alex\u2019s jaw dropped when he made an alarming discovery about his new dashcam.<\/p>\n

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An Australian dashcam company may be putting customers\u2019 privacy at risk, broadcasting their location and live camera feed to the world.\u00a09News<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw this little map icon for the dashcam, I clicked on that and I could see my dashcam,\u201d Alex said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I zoomed out and I could see everyone else\u2019s dash cams.\u201d<\/p>\n

The camera\u2019s app broadcasted a real-time video feed of other dashcam users around the world<\/a>, where they were going and what they were saying.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI could hear people having their normal conversations and everything, it was very strange,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The cloud connectivity feature, available from Australian<\/a> company BlackVue, was sold in popular stores nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On its website, the company sells it as a tool to check on your vehicle, but what they don\u2019t make clear is anyone can do the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could keep listening to them, watching them and go from there, it\u2019s bad for predators,\u201d Alex said.<\/p>\n

It is understood the cloud used to be an opt-out feature, and only recently changed to opt-in.<\/p>\n

There are concerns people may not realise what they are signing up to, especially those who have their camera connected to the car battery allowing it to record 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is probably one of the biggest privacy or security concerns I\u2019ve seen with a piece of technology in a long time,\u201d Nine tech expert Trevor Long<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would think that one per cent of people know this is happening, the other 99 per cent have no idea they\u2019ve connected this to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement to 9News, BlackVue said it is operating in accordance with Australia\u2019s Cyber Security Act and information recently circulating on social media about the product is \u201csensationalist and inaccurate\u201d.<\/p>\n

Though the technology<\/a> exists, most manufacturers don\u2019t make it publicly available.<\/p>\n

Dashcam owners are urged to check their privacy settings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should have someone from the government<\/a> contacting this company today and ensuring their users are fully aware of just what they\u2019re exposing to the rest of the world,\u201d Long said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australian dashcam company may be putting customers\u2019 privacy at risk, broadcasting their location and live camera feed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-752877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}