YouTube channel swamps police with requests for disclosure of body-cam video

A YouTube channel has been surfacing police body-cam footage. It now has some 75 videos up, showing, among other things, men with knives, break-ins, car accidents, drug smoking, and an emergency phone call about a woman going into labor. Subjects’ privacy, it seems, is getting trampled in the stampede to get at such video.

Yes, your smartphone camera can be used to spy on you

A researcher claims to have written an Android app that takes photos and videos using the device camera while the screen is turned off – so you wouldn’t even know the camera was spying on you.