The company addressed Gill's concerns with a 15-comment thread on Twitter. From the map, you can assume that it doesn't publicly show all of the BlackVue users' locations.īlackVue doesn't consider this a bug but rather a feature that you can easily disable. For example, in France, only 25 users were broadcasting their location. The number of users on the map was relatively small. In this video from the mobile app, you can see the owners of dashcams scattered all over the map (the US and Europe in particular), meaning they were broadcasting their GPS location publicly. From reading, this is a feature, not a bug, and it appears it's been reported before," he tweeted. "Cloud-ready #dashcams broadcast your EXACT GPS location by default it seems from inside your car, without permission, PUBLICLY on the internet! Here's a quick video from the mobile app.
BLACKVUE DASH CAM ANDROID
The company claims that this is not a vulnerability but a feature, and people share their private information by choice.īlackVue is a well-known maker of dashboard cameras (dashcams), used to record the view through the car's front windscreen continuously.Īndy Gill tested the BlackVue app on both the iOS and Android systems and came across some unpleasant discoveries. Cybersecurity researcher Andy Gill has discovered that BlackVue dashboard cameras publicly broadcast your exact GPS location from inside your car.
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