Posted on 01/04/2017 7:53:34 AM PST by C19fan
Devices like Amazon’s Echo and Google Home were big sellers over the holidays, with people all over the country turning their houses over to digital assistants.
But while a virtual butler seems like a great idea, consumers are slowly coming to grips with the implications of the “smart home.” Devices that can answer questions are also taking notes. And while that may help digital assistants like Alexa become better and faster, it also helps law enforcement listen in on private conversations.
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Smart Homes for Dumb People...
Or Smart Homes for Lazy People
Ditto
Uh... because they’re a bunch of Nosey Parkers who think the First Amendment doesn’t pertain to them...?
I heard a rumor somewhere Obama funneled several billion$$$ to Amazon to develope and market stuff like this.
Imagine tools like this in East Germany before the walls fell.
It's listening all the time. It has to, so it knows when it's activated. Besides that, it determines what's true and what you should know. It doesn't delve beyond a quick answer. It's another nail in the coffin of intellectual freedom.
I had a creepy technology moment today. The idle page of my computer had a memo about when a package from Amazon would be arriving. The computer is reading my email without authorization and transferring information in an email to another page. The only other possibility is that the computer keeps a record of my online purchases and the delivery schedule for them.
Yikes!!
I’ll never pay to have my home bugged.
Remember the old Yakov Smirnoff joke, “In Russia, Television Watches You”.
Well, it is reality here today. But not only is it your television, it’s your Fridge, your Toaster, and everything else with this Internet of Things.
This is a substitute for true police work.
The stupid assumption is that anything recorded is accurate.
you can take that chance ,not here
Agreed. Unless the alleged culprit asked Alexa how to commit murder, there will be nothing for the cops to find.
Unless you start with the word “Alexa,” you are essentially talking to a warm rock.
Anyone not see this coming???
My son has one; we love to ask it to tell a racist joke, dirty joke, etc. The thing will answer something like “that’s not funny.”
Then tell it to shut the he!! up, or some other nasty thing.
They can be fun; but you should definitely have a good tin foil hat when you’re near.
Probably nothing that exciting. More than likely that idle page is a browser window, probably the same browser you use to login to Amazon, and you probably have Save Password turned on. The rest is just pulling info you made readily available.
“Alexa, listen carefully. Everything I say is a lie.
I am telling the truth.”
I was telling Hubby that the other night when we were watching the news about the police wanting it regarding a murder. This thing wouldn’t know anything about the murder unless they used Alexa for something regarding the murder, bought weapons or something. They could just as easily look at cc statements for that.
It always amazes me what ‘news’ people fall for anymore.
Riiiight, google, yahoo or your Bank would never ever turn over your private personal information to the nanny state.
unless of course they have an opportunity too.
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