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https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/11/4/16604448/webcam-tape-over-security
Anyone who buys a Camera / Microphone and allows it to connect to the internet is pretty much just asking for surveillance. Alexa now already will call the cops automatically. Trouble is that it isnt just Alexa or Google Home, its your computer and smart phone and tv, and refrigerator and everything else that demands an internet connection. Your web browser on your desktop computer typically comes with a microphone built right in so you can speak out what youre searching for instead of typing it in. Think Google doesnt constantly listen? Think that your Facebook app, that requires access to your phones camera and mic is not listening at all times? Oh, but they are just using it for targetted advertising? It has access to them at ALL TIMES. So does every other creepy app that listens to you 24 / 7.
The noose is now around our necks, but they havent yanked hard on the leash yet. Give it time. They will start to pull slowly and only tug lightly at first, and only to those whose behavior the powers that be deem excessively unacceptable at first. When things really start to go down hill, you'll see them yanking hard on that digital leash for even the most minor behaviors they deem unacceptable. Say goodbye to sleeping in on weekends, brushing your teeth too long, having bacon in your fridge, or anything that anyone may be offended by. Talk trash about politics never achieving anything good for the majority of the people? Expect a visit from the cops or some sort of behavioral "service". Get upset about illegal immigration? You'll be the one on the hook and you'll get a visit from ICE, but they wont go after the immigrants themselves.
Think a PERSON is listening? Ha ha ha! NO. All this AI crap they are coming up with is going to be used to scan and monitor the contents of every aspect of your life.
Without privacy, every subjectively interpreted thing you do will be held against you, because it is profitable to companies.
Anyone who buys a Camera / Microphone and allows it to connect to the internet is pretty much just asking for surveillance. Alexa now already will call the cops automatically. Trouble is that it isnt just Alexa or Google Home, its your computer and smart phone and tv, and refrigerator and everything else that demands an internet connection. Your web browser on your desktop computer typically comes with a microphone built right in so you can speak out what youre searching for instead of typing it in. Think Google doesnt constantly listen? Think that your Facebook app, that requires access to your phones camera and mic is not listening at all times? Oh, but they are just using it for targetted advertising? It has access to them at ALL TIMES. So does every other creepy app that listens to you 24 / 7.
The noose is now around our necks, but they havent yanked hard on the leash yet. Give it time. They will start to pull slowly and only tug lightly at first, and only to those whose behavior the powers that be deem excessively unacceptable at first. When things really start to go down hill, you'll see them yanking hard on that digital leash for even the most minor behaviors they deem unacceptable. Say goodbye to sleeping in on weekends, brushing your teeth too long, having bacon in your fridge, or anything that anyone may be offended by. Talk trash about politics never achieving anything good for the majority of the people? Expect a visit from the cops or some sort of behavioral "service". Get upset about illegal immigration? You'll be the one on the hook and you'll get a visit from ICE, but they wont go after the immigrants themselves.
Think a PERSON is listening? Ha ha ha! NO. All this AI crap they are coming up with is going to be used to scan and monitor the contents of every aspect of your life.
Without privacy, every subjectively interpreted thing you do will be held against you, because it is profitable to companies.
