Wyze
Wyze is rolling out a new program to make sure only you can see your home security cameras.
In an announcement Tuesday about its new VerifiedView program, Wyze explained that it already uses "strong protections like password requirements, two-factor authentication, cloud security, encryption, tools to detect suspicious logins, and much more." Despite those efforts, though, the company has suffered several high-profile breaches that potentially let people look into strangers' homes.
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VerifiedView, Wyze said, aims to fix that.
VerifiedView is "an additional layer of protection that goes beyond industry standards" and acts as a final safety net to ensure that content on a Wyze camera is only seen by the intended audience.
How it works
When you set up a Wyze camera, your user ID will be digitally stamped onto the camera's firmware. The camera then digitally stamps that same ID onto every photo, video, and livestream. Before anyone views a camera or downloads or shares that camera's content, Wyze runs an instant check verification process to make sure the user ID on the content matches the one on the account trying to see it. If the ID doesn't match, access is denied, even if the user already has access-level permissions.
This means that even if someone has your login credentials or there's a scenario where a cloud outage causes issues with permissions, the app will never show images to the wrong user.
How to enable Wyze's VerifiedView
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