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Is it illegal to simply look at an unsecured webcam feed? The answer varies by jurisdiction. In the United States, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) has been interpreted to require “unauthorized access.” If a camera’s web page has no login screen and is indexed by Google, has the owner implicitly granted access? Courts have struggled with this. In the 2020 case Van Buren v. United States , the Supreme Court narrowed the CFAA’s scope, suggesting that merely viewing publicly available information—even if the owner intended it to be private but failed to secure it—might not constitute a crime. However, state-level wiretapping laws often forbid viewing or recording video from a place where a person has a “reasonable expectation of privacy.” A webcam pointed at a public street is one thing; one pointed inside a home is quite another. Use built-in web server capabilities to host the