My Paintings

WINDOW WOMAN, OIL ON CANVAS, 48 in x 48 in, 2022

THE BATH, OIL ON CANVAS, 24 X 48, 2022

Arlene_Buster_TheBathWebcam_oil_on_canvas_24X48, 2022

HANDHELD WEBCAM CAFE

OIL ON CANVAS, 2o x 20, 2021

Handheld Webcam Cafe, 20 X 20, by Arlene Buster

I hacked into your webcam
18 X 24, oil on canvas 2015

I Hacked Into Your Webcam, oil on canvas, 18 X 24, by Arlene Buster

Bulk SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM NAMED OPTIC NERVE

Edward Snowden revealed an NSA program called Optic Nerve. The operation was a bulk surveillance program under which they captured webcam images every five minutes from Yahoo users’ video chats and then sTORING them for future use. It is estimated that between 3% and 11% of the images captured contained “undesirable nudity”.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/06/phone-camera-microphone-spying

SCHOOL MONITORED STUDENTS AT HOME

dubbed the "WebcamGate" scandal, the schools secretly spied on the students while they were in the privacy of their homes.[4][5] School authorities surreptitiously and remotely activated webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home.[6][7] After the suit was brought, the school district, of which the two high schools are part, revealed that it had secretly taken more than 66,000 images.[8][9] The suit charged that in doing so the district infringed on its students' privacy rights.[6][10][11] A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction, ordering the school district to stop its secret webcam monitoring, and ordered the district to pay the plaintiffs' attorney fees.[12][13][14] “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-school-spy-on-kid-at-home-via-webcam/

SCHOOL SPYING ON STUDENTS

“The lawsuit was filed after 15-year-old high school sophomore (second year student) Blake Robbins was disciplined at school for this behavior in his home.[6][14] The school based its decision to discipline Robbins on a photograph that had been secretly taken of him in his bedroom, via the webcam in his school-issued laptop.”

Without telling its students, the schools remotely accessed their school-issued laptops to secretly take pictures of students in their own homes, their chat logs, and records of the websites they visited.

The school then transmitted the images to servers at the school, where school authorities reviewed them and shared the snapshots with others.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District

Mall surveIllance instances

“.CLINTON TWP., Mich. (FOX 2) - A former gym owner who police say placed a hidden camera inside the ladies' locker room was sentenced three to 20 years for video of a minor.Tuesday and 11 months behind bars for video of adults.”
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/crossfit-gym-owner-with-camera-in-changing-room-learns-prison-fate Published April 16, 2019.