'Private' Wireless Camera Systems Actually Broadcast to the Public
In Wales, Michelle Teran is leading a band of followers through the city streets. The Canadian artist drags along a screen embedded in a suitcase that is showing supposedly secret images captured from cameras inside surrounding buildings. Equipment that underpins in-store closed-circuit TV cameras, personal internet surveillance, even baby crib monitors and TV signal extenders, sends signals along the 2.4-GHz wave band, an unlicensed portion of radio spectrum that is firmly in the public domain. If the cameras are set up incorrectly, passersby with the proper equipment can easily grab images from them when they wander within range.
The Art of Privacy Invasion, Wired News, November 3, 2005.
