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Alexa Echo and Facebook Portal
My own Thoughts | 12/21/2018 | Winston Smith

Posted on 12/21/2018 6:51:41 AM PST by tom paine 2

Telescreen = Portal and Echo


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Anyone concerned about putting these devices into our homes? The similarity to the Telescreen in Orwell's 1984 is frightening. The ministry of Truth over at Google has been very busy.
1 posted on 12/21/2018 6:51:42 AM PST by tom paine 2
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To: tom paine 2

I won’t have those, and I won’t have a television with a built in camera, and I have a cloth hood for my PC camera. Bad actors have used all of these.


2 posted on 12/21/2018 6:58:08 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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You DO know, that they are ALWAYS listening, right? MONITORING you.


3 posted on 12/21/2018 6:58:38 AM PST by 2harddrive (Go to www.CodeIsFreeSpeech.com for 10 FREE 3D-printer gun blueprints!)
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To: tom paine 2

If you’ve have a dumb phone or a cable satellite box since about 1995 you’ve already had these devices in your home.


4 posted on 12/21/2018 7:02:51 AM PST by TexasGunLover
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To: tom paine 2

I think there’s an Alexa in a box around here somewhere that our son got my wife 2 Christmases ago. It’s staying in the box.


5 posted on 12/21/2018 7:03:21 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2harddrive
They're always listening and sending what they hear to Facebook, Google, Apple, etc. to be "deciphered."
6 posted on 12/21/2018 7:05:00 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: tom paine 2

Electronic tethers. You’re not under house arrest. Yet.


7 posted on 12/21/2018 7:14:14 AM PST by PGalt
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To: tom paine 2
Well, your phone is always listening to you anyway.....(but I still wouldn't put one of these in my house).

Funny thing, the other night, my wife and I stumbled upon a Dr. Pimple Popper episode and were talking about it.
I picked up my phone, opened my browser and keyed in "Dr" - the first thing in the list - Dr. Pimple Popper.......Co-inky-dinky? or Not?........
(cue twilight zone theme)
8 posted on 12/21/2018 7:16:40 AM PST by Karma_Sherab
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To: tom paine 2
Why would anyone put a full time spy device in their home?
9 posted on 12/21/2018 7:23:45 AM PST by Baynative ("A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore)
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A device with a camera and a microphone, connected to the internet, made by Facebook, which has no intention of protecting our privacy.

Yup, that's what we all need.

10 posted on 12/21/2018 7:26:39 AM PST by red-dawg (Climate change caused the end of the Ice Age. Did man play a part in it?)
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Citizen—you have nothing to fear unless you speak unauthorized speech or think unauthorized thoughts.

If you are not sure what they are—just turn on CNN and they will give you the appropriate thoughts for the new day.

Remember—check every day—yesterday’s approved speech could be tomorrow’s hate speech.

:-(


11 posted on 12/21/2018 7:30:43 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Baynative

Why would anyone buy/drive a car that spies on you?

...and yet...(we do).


12 posted on 12/21/2018 7:33:56 AM PST by TADSLOS (My favorite essential oil is bacon grease.)
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I have two Alexa devices and am not particularly worried about security. The NSA has been monitoring my emails, my cell phone follows my every move, my ISP knows every website I visit and I am sure other government agencies have accessed my medical records. Alexa is pretty bored with conversations in my home consisting of mainly what do we want for dinner and my rants at the lies and propaganda I see on TV news. I am certain a totalitarian police state would already have no problem in finding reasons to haul me off to a concentration camp.


13 posted on 12/21/2018 7:34:19 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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Just on a lark, a few minutes ago I asked Alexa “Who is Jeff Beelzebub?” Want to guess what Alexa told me?

Give it a try. Just wondering if you get the same response?


14 posted on 12/21/2018 7:39:55 AM PST by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies & other DemoKKKrats: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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I just asked Alexa how the spy business was going.

She spoke like a weasel and invoked the 5th Amendment.


15 posted on 12/21/2018 7:40:30 AM PST by TADSLOS (My favorite essential oil is bacon grease.)
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To: Menehune56

“They’re always listening and sending what they hear”

I don’t have one and don’t intend to get one, but anything with a microphone that’s connected to the net can listen.

For the alexas and other little things, put the device on a metal base and put a tin can or something over it when not in use. Radio waves won’t get through that.


16 posted on 12/21/2018 7:41:07 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: The Great RJ

We have an Alexa as well—and I agree that the privacy horse has long since left the barn—Alexa is a footnote at this point.

If she won’t let us unplug the machine without getting electrocuted then I would start to get worried... :-)

(Sorry, Hal, I can’t do that....)


17 posted on 12/21/2018 7:41:25 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Karma_Sherab

That’s nothing...my hub and I purchased a piece of locally done “art”...painting done with resin..never did an online search either.We discussed the method, etc with artist for several minutes. Paid by check. Next thing I know I look at Pinterest and “resin art” shows up...Something similar happened last week after long conversation with my best friend. I now talk loudly to my phone saying “google, fb, twitter, Pinterest sucks”


18 posted on 12/21/2018 8:09:24 AM PST by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: Dr. Sivana

I have extra cloth hoods put aside for the heads of the FAAGTs.


19 posted on 12/21/2018 8:21:29 AM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: goodnesswins

I looked up car insurance rates at the AAA website.
In 1 day I got 5 voice mails and 7 emails from them. All different people. I had several the day of me looking at the website.

I will NOT buy from AAA.


20 posted on 12/21/2018 8:55:08 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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