[[Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming it improperly shared users’ information with Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm used by the Trump campaign]]
Wondering about things like I-Roomba which apparently spies on people in the privacy of their own homes without their knowing it?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4119974/posts
All that smart tech spies on people, and records audio and video. The tech companies claim that the recordings are only for R&D and trouble shooting, but I no longer buy that.
When I retired from a defense contractor company in 2012, I was in a position to know that there was not enough computer storage in the world to record all that. Today, at the end of 2022, I know that now there are orders of magnitude more storage than ten years ago.