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throwa356262today at 8:04 AM1 replyview on HN

Not a new issue, see this article from 2017

https://www.newsweek.com/sex-toys-we-vibe-recording-708761

The issue is not even limited to sex toys. Few years back there was big a leak of Apple Watch recordings that included both intimate situations and rape:

https://www.howtogeek.com/apple-settlement-for-unauthorized-...

Who knows which dataset they are now a part of...


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coneonthefloortoday at 10:44 AM

“Accidentally recording” sensitive data is happening pretty much everywhere. Last year I was tasked with removing sensitive payment information that had been stored in an insurance company’s database as “call transcripts”. The automated system would state that the payment information would not be stored. It was in fact always stored…