Camera capable of selective data transmission for privacy protection

A camera capable of selective data transmission for privacy protection comprising:

• a video capturing module for capturing a video stream with or without audio;
• a video processing module being arranged to process the captured video stream to perform analytics on the captured video stream to obtain analyzed data;
• a transceiver module which is in data communication with the video processing module and being arranged to transmit the analyzed data to a first network device;
• a switching module which is in data communication with the video capturing module and the transceiver module and being arranged to enable or disable transmission of the captured video stream from the video capturing module to the transceiver module for transmitting to the first network device or a second network device;
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• a physical switch for controlling operation of the switching module to enable or disable transmission of the captured video stream from the video capturing module to the transceiver module for transmitting to the first network device or a second network device;
• in case transmission of the captured video stream is disabled, the analyzed data is still transmitted to the user.