China News Service, July 5th. On July 5th, Xiaodu's official Weibo issued a statement on the incident of "the woman said that the smart speaker in the homestay secretly photographed the privacy of the tenant": It is strongly requested that the business stop this behavior as soon as possible, and has contacted the person involved in the video to support The parties defend their rights and will do their best to cooperate and assist the police in their inquiries and investigations.
Figure from Xiaodu Weibo
The statement said that the recording function shown in the video is the "care assistant" function of the Xiaodu smart screen.
The original intention of the research and development of this function is to help users take care of the elderly and children through the smart screen camera at home in different places, so as to facilitate timely handling in the event of an accident.
The Xiaodu smart screen will not automatically turn on the camera and the "care assistant" function by default. Only the device administrator has the right to bind the device first in the Xiaodu App on the mobile phone, or after setting it on the smart screen, manually click "Nursing Assistant" to enable this function.
In order to protect the privacy and security of users and their families, Xiaodu's "Nursing Assistant" function will give clear reminders on Xiaodu's devices during monitoring, recording and uploading of nursing videos to clearly inform users that the function is running.
The statement mentioned that the Xiaodu smart screen used by the homestay in the video is an ordinary user version.
Xiaodu's "Nursing Assistant Agreement" clearly stipulates that the ordinary user version of the product is only allowed to be used in home scenarios. If there is an illegal use of the nursing function to cause privacy threats or harm to others, Xiaodu has the right to ban the user's Xiaodu account. And notify the public security organs for further processing.
Xiaodu said that regarding the privacy and security issues of Xiaodu smart devices that are common in hotels, Xiaodu has developed Xiaodu smart screen (hotel version) specially for commercial channels such as hotels, which removes the camera and has no exposed physical objects except the charging port. port, remove the OTG interface, and use the secure ADB solution, which increases the difficulty of cracking the product from the outside, prevents flashing or brute force cracking and implants malware, and protects user privacy to the greatest extent.
(Zhongxin Finance)