The new camera fitted to Huawei’s latest P30 pro smartphone has sparked privacy concerns due to the capabilities of its triple-lens camera.
The phone can zoom up to 5x optically, with a 10x digital zoom, allowing it to zoom in 50x, with pictures showing the camera capturing legible small writing on buildings, hundreds of metres away.
"It's basically making everyone a potential spy," Fergus Hanson, head of International Cyber Policy at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, says, adding “Even if you might not have a line of sight of another human being, your every action may be scrutinised in enormous detail.”