The camera would need to have its IR filter removed which some mobile optical zoom lenses seem to have removed?! If the lidar would be stationary it would render the lidar beam unsafe for human eyes as well. Most lidars have a beam that is harmful if pointed directly for a longer period than you would blink if looking directly into something rally bright. Because they are infrared you don't have that reaction. Therefore it is mounted on a very fast moving rotary disc. Most of the time the disc itself is also tilting up and down or refracted by a mirror or glass to get a bigger field-of-view". This article is saying, you can destroy a camera by pointing a laser in the sensor. Yeah, dûh but the lidar won't break it, unless using a zoomed in sensor which seem to have its IR removed in some mobile cams. So yeah it can happen... Edit: looked at the reddit video some phones with IR filter removes from zoomed in lensen can have problems.