#BigBrother

'If you didnโ€™t notice, thereโ€™s a small camera that sits at the top of some of these screens. These cameras are used to track and identify the behaviours of everyone who walks byโ€Šโ€”โ€Šyouโ€™ll find no signs up to explain this. Children are also included in their profiling, which I discovered based on a conversation Iโ€™ve had with Orb on the phone.'

https://medium.com/@ys/attention-dubliners-we-are-all-being-spied-on-by-a-little-known-company-on-camden-street-5c784558dc4e

@jd my first though was "that camera is separate from the box and doesn't look very well secured" - in my younger / angrier days I'd have considered approaching the device from the blind side, cutting the cable and swiping the camera unit to use for my own experiments;although nowadays I woudn't want to risk a night in the cells and a caution or court apperance for a camera which probably isn't even worth โ‚ฌ20 if bought online..
@vfrmedia Yes, I wouldn't advocate property damage online, of course โ€“ but yes such things are simple if it isnt dangerous

@jd I wouldn't have suggested 30 years ago as camera would more likely have 230V supply but most are 5-12V today.

What is more concerning is IE and NO are 1000s of km away and there appears to be no connection between the various systems; hinting *more than one* startup in EU could be repackaging a (Chinese?) hardware sign device gathering this data - in the same way to how the (more innocuous) fingerprint readers used for employee time recording are widely resold across the EU.