I think most people aware of Hikvision at this point understand the lack of privacy and security. This seems to take it up to a new level though with their software being used to distribute hacked material obtained by bad actors. Marked as NSFW purely due to the sensitive subject matter of the article.
I’m with you on that. Working in IT, I was surprised that my boss has a camera positioned over his toddler’s crib and other cameras throughout the house that he was accessing while we were on a team happy hour. Not at all worth the risk.