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Google and Amazon patent creepy SPY systems that use cameras and sensors in your home [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 2, 2018 | Ellie Zolfagharifard

Posted on 04/02/2018 7:48:06 AM PDT by C19fan

Amazon and Google really do want to watch your every move.

A series of patents filed by the firms 'outline an array of possibilities' for how their smart speakers could be used to better listen in on users.

They suggest their always-on Google Home and Amazon Echo devices could know everything from a user's mood to their medical condition, and target advertising based on this data.

The development comes amid a growing scandal involving the handling of the private data of 50 million users by Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: amazon; amazonecho; google; googlehome; privacy; surveillance
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In "1984" the state forces telescreens in every home and workplace. In our modern world people voluntarily give up their privacy for Big Brother Zuckerberg and Bezos.
1 posted on 04/02/2018 7:48:06 AM PDT by C19fan
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I’m shocked, in meetings where I work, how many of us have tape over the cameras on our laptops.

We have a smart TV at home and have frosted tape over the camera. We have a microphone on our remote but to activate it we must accept their terms, which we’ve never done.


2 posted on 04/02/2018 7:52:45 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: C19fan

Greedy “Big Brother” is watching , hearing and YOU let them in!


3 posted on 04/02/2018 7:55:32 AM PDT by wetgundog (Mainstream Media, Lying Liars Lying.)
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To: C19fan
When money in ones hands no longer exists, freedom is gone. Older Baby Boomers will be the last of those who won't voluntarily give up the existence of money that's any more than a credit in a supervised account.

I fear that our last expression of freedom was electing President Trump. The (not so) Invisible Hand won't let that happen again.

Just my honest (outlier) opinion

4 posted on 04/02/2018 7:55:57 AM PDT by grania (Deplorable and ProMy ud of It!)
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To: C19fan
The same patent applications reveals a device that could 'recognize a T-shirt on a floor of the user's closet' with Will Smith's face.

Whew. I guess I'm in the clear. I don't own a T-shirt with a picture of Will Smith's face on it...

;-)

5 posted on 04/02/2018 7:56:38 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: C19fan

....just a story to “ lessen” Odungo’s
serious breaking of law....now the
Marshmellowed brained morons can say
How can spying be so serious if Amazon and Googly can sell the stuff?....see everybody does it


6 posted on 04/02/2018 7:56:47 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: C19fan

Bookmark


7 posted on 04/02/2018 7:58:05 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: C19fan

I guess that means humans are even more like sheep than George Orwell thought they were.


8 posted on 04/02/2018 7:58:23 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: robroys woman

I think that there is a mic in a smart TV itself as well, so just opting out of the remote mic may not be enough.

I need to find out how to find the cameras on our Samsung smart TVs.


9 posted on 04/02/2018 7:59:38 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

....and 95% of people thought FREE computers for students was such a great idea...in theory. *smiles*


10 posted on 04/02/2018 8:05:15 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: miele man

Bookmark


11 posted on 04/02/2018 8:10:27 AM PDT by miele man
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To: grania

Unfortunately, your opinion is dead on target.

We invite the spy into our homes, our autos, our phones. We then converse with them daily. They know more about you than your immediate family members.


12 posted on 04/02/2018 8:11:57 AM PDT by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: MayflowerMadam

um, look for the lens?

seriously, all it takes to prevent spying is a piece of masking tape.


13 posted on 04/02/2018 8:17:15 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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everybody in my department has some kind of tape over the camera on their laptop, mine happens to be cammo ducttape
14 posted on 04/02/2018 8:20:21 AM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: C19fan

Have them listen for the n-word, or signs of islamophobia. Oh yes, they can monitor to be sure you use the new government-approved pronouns and fine you for every violation.

China is already fining people for anti-social behavior. The left loves China because it is a repressive, socialist state. Will happen here. CA first, then Oregon.


15 posted on 04/02/2018 8:27:31 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left. PS. f*ck the media.)
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To: RitchieAprile

I know about lenses on PCs; we have tape on all of ours. Never paid any attention to the anatomy of a smart TV, though. Will have to check it out.


16 posted on 04/02/2018 8:30:07 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

And it’s getting harder and harder than find a TV that isn’t a “smart TV “


17 posted on 04/02/2018 8:34:48 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: C19fan

Orwell’s “1984” is supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.

Big Data is evil.


18 posted on 04/02/2018 8:42:23 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: robroys woman

We have tape over kindles, laptops and smart phone. No microphone activation on anything.

Not sure I will use microphones ever.


19 posted on 04/02/2018 8:42:33 AM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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To: C19fan

Today, people put these in their homes voluntarily... for now.


20 posted on 04/02/2018 9:06:44 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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