Re: Yet more unsubstantiated clickbait
"All we know is that the camera is active when it's supposed to be inactive. That's a real concern."
Why is that a real concern? If it is connected to the internet, which it needs to be to be turned back on via an app then even if it was almost fully powered down it could still be woken WOL style for nefarious purposes if required by a secret organisation. They'd just have to start it up about 30-60 seconds before they wanted to capture the action, not usually a problem in surveillance operations.
Other than that streaming video takes a fair bit of bandwidth in the upload direction. A rarely used direction for most households other than torrenters. You could easily use your ISPs bandwidth stats, a free netflow product (PRTG for instance) and see anytime it tries to upload and alert you.
If you really want to make sure it can't transmit then pull the plug. Every IP cam has exactly the same issue when plugged in.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
