Sean Lyons
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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You know, digital cat feeders or cat feeders that are set up to give people the convenience of delivering a dose of food to their cat might also have a camera embedded so that you can just make sure whether or not your cat has eaten the food that you put out or that another cat hasn't come and eat it.
All legitimate functionality for a cat feeder and all legitimate when you buy that cat feeder for that purpose because you know that it's there, you choose to use it, you can probably switch it off if you have the ability to.
Exactly.
And if you were buying it for the purpose of feeding a cat while you're away, you'd think that was a great feature.
But if it's being used by somebody else, if nobody knows that there's a camera embedded in it, if somebody just puts a cat feeder into a room that has a camera and it doesn't have a visible camera, there's no flashing light, there's no ability to say this is now recording, then somebody could be using it.
If they've got access to that device, then they could be using that information effectively.
And the data, in this case, camera footage, live camera footage or recorded camera footage, however it might work, they could be using that to track somebody's movements to know when somebody was in and when somebody was out.
People we know will put tracks on vehicles because a vehicle is often fundamental to a person and quite attached to their movements.
Again, you can tell when somebody isn't in a place based on the presence of a vehicle.
So things that are designed to help you keep track of, you know, to help fleets keep track of vehicles across the country might be used in that way.
The kind of tags that we put in our wallet to make sure that our wallets are there, the things that we attach to our keychains, all of these things are small and discrete by design.
And that makes them easy to install in a place that somebody might not want them.
So, you know, a key ring fob that's actually then sewn into the lining of a bag or stuck underneath another device, placed in a book.
Cameras that are really small, again, by design.
Security cameras that are designed to help us work out if somebody's gotten into our house and we weren't there.
All of these things in the wrong hands can be repurposed to keep a track on people, like I say, which is problematic if the people that are being tracked are completely unaware of what it's capable of doing and are completely unaware of who's got access to that information.
The other important thing to remember is this.
This isn't just the preserve of people who are highly technically literate.
This is not for computer science graduates.
These technologies are available easily and freely on websites and, like I say, even high street stores, designed for another purpose but then misused by somebody else.
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