Why We Created SafeSight

About ten years ago, when my eldest daughter was born, I bought our family’s first monitoring camera—a baby monitor. At the time, it felt incredibly advanced. There was no need for a dedicated display; all I needed was an iPhone and its app to check the live video of my baby anytime, anywhere—even when I was traveling for work. It was the first time I had seen a monitoring device that could be accessed remotely over the internet, and I was truly fascinated by this little gadget.

But when I excitedly showed the baby monitor to my wife, she disagreed with placing it near our baby’s crib. She asked me, “What if someone else could also see our baby through their phone?” I instinctively replied, “How is that even possible?” Although I thought her concern was unlikely, I had no choice but to return the monitor due to her insistence.

After that, internet-connected cameras that could be viewed remotely via smartphones became more common, and I bought a few to try out. Again, because of my wife’s objections, I didn’t install them in the bedroom or living room—only in the study. And almost unconsciously, I made sure the camera lens never pointed toward the computer screen.

“Besides you, could someone else be watching everything your home camera captures?” That’s an important question. After looking deeper into it, I came to a conclusion: it’s almost impossible to completely prevent. On our YouTube channel, I’ve compiled several cases of home monitoring cameras being hacked remotely. As you’ll see, it doesn’t take advanced hacking skills for strangers to break into home cameras over the internet or your Wi-Fi and spy on your life. In one video, when a journalist visited a man and told him that his every move could be seen online, his shocked expression was unforgettable. What’s even scarier is that YouTube is full of tutorials allowing almost anyone to easily learn how to invade home cameras.

The unfortunate reality is that, in today’s market, no home monitoring camera truly prioritizes user privacy—and none effectively protect it.

We install monitoring cameras to safeguard and record our lives and those of our families. Yet now, these same devices can become windows for strangers to peek into our private moments. We do need monitoring cameras—but we also deeply care about our privacy.

Being able to enjoy the security cameras offer, while ensuring our private lives aren’t exposed to strangers and our personal data remains firmly in our own hands—that’s what most of us want. And that’s exactly why we created SafeSight.