Startup Wants To Peek Through Your Home's Wired Cameras

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 2, 2012 @08:05AM from the nope-nope-nope dept.

alphadogg writes "The little cameras in your home are multiplying. There are the ones you bought, perhaps your SLR or digital camera, but also those that just kind of show up in your current phone, your old phone, your laptop, your game console, and soon your TV and set-top box. Varun Arora, founder of startup GotoCamera in Singapore, wants you to turn them all on and let his company's algorithms analyze what they show, then sell the results as marketing data, in a sort of visual version of what Google and other firms do with search results and free email services."

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Jennicam 2.0? by dtmos · 2012-03-02 08:06 · Score: 5, Informative

Startup wants to peek through the wired cameras in your home, sell the data
Wait, wait. Could we go back and cover the part about why I would want them to do this, again?
The offering to the user... by Neil_Brown · 2012-03-02 08:11 · Score: 5, Informative

a startup that provides online storage and software for web and Wi-Fi cams
Sadly omitted from the summary (albeit in the article) — the user gets "free" storage in exchange for the analytics.
Far too little to convince me to share such data, though.