That figure seemed way off to me (gut response) so I did a tiny bit of digging: Ontario claims income (primary household income) for 2024 was $791B. ~10% isn't as shocking as I expected.
Wagering 10% of your household income is not shocking?? What would it take to shock you? That is an astounding amount.
Most people are living paycheck to paycheck. I've watched gambling destroy more than one family member's lives.
To put this number in context: estimate 1/3 of income for rent, so this is 1/3 of their rent?! Translating that to my own rent is an amount that would immediately lead me to quit forever.
It's both better and worse than it seems. I'm guessing something like 50% of folks gamble $0. Then another 45% gamble some amount of their income, averaging 10%. Finally 5% will gamble everything they have and send their family careening into poverty.
By transaction volume yes. Presumably it’s not all spending though, if you regularly win back some of that money. The same dollar is probably wagered multiple times before it is lost.
Ontario lotteries pay out about 58 cents per dollar in, so that's still $13,000 annually out-of-pocket for a total spend of $31,000. That's crazy money.
Sportsbooks typically pay back more like 90%, brick and mortar casinos 90%-99% depending on the game. I don't know what Ontario mandates for regulated online casinos, but I'd guess they're at the high end of that and focus on volume, return custom and dark patterns rather than extreme house edge.
If it's 98%, the average household loses 0.2% of their income gambling.
Assuming the point of these cameras is security (and not just surveillance for stalker cops), being able to upload replacement footage would subvert that entirely. This has been a feature of many spy and cops/robber movies.
The point of these cameras is to deliver as many images of good quality as possible that show something of interest like a person, a car's numberplate and so on.
I almost guarantee you, if the camera even has a SIM-Card then it's pre-configured with all the necessary information to find and join the mobile core network via APN.
It turns on, joins the core network, gets handed an ip address and additional information like a servername/ip as its reporting endpoint, establishes the connection and starts taking pictures that it then sorts out and uploads.
That's pretty much it. No login credentials, no complicated protocols, nothing. The things is identified via IMEI, Mac or some other burned in "serial" and that's all that's necessary to make it happen.
So there are no credentials that could get lost, no technology that would be worth anything, access is being controlled on the network side and the images that are being taken are from a public place with no expectation for privacy.
The core system only has to be secure enough so that it doesn't get hacked via an open bluetooth tty or something and everything else is handled by the network it belongs to. That's why DNS manipulation and similar stuff doesn't get you anywhere.
Besides that, it has to be cheap and doesn't have to adhere to any security standards whatsoever. It's a pole with a mini camera and a solar cell that can just be vandalized by the next person that shows up.
Don't worry, plenty of people are willing to talk about vaccine safety, even if they have no idea what they're talking about and don't understand rates or per-capita figures (lots of crossover there!)
Most problems that aren't reduced to poverty can be reduced to people who can't read graphs and only understand linear functions. Alternative wording "it's normies that are the problem"
I think the obvious answer is they aren't held to account by regulators. If a few execs were sent to prison for defrauding their users (and investors for taking on so much risk) things would change overnight.
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