[Mariner]

I work for a tech company that has made major capital investment in IoT and robot cars. Huge investments.

To top it off, Verizon has announced their first city-wide deployment of 5G wireless will be where I reside, Sacramento.

Each of you, listen carefully: You don’t want ANY of this crap. None of it.

If you think there’s no privacy now, just wait another 10-15 years. The “internet” will know the dimensions, consistency and weight of every turd you drop. “It” will know the hours you keep, what you watch and read...and it will link it all with your purchasing data. How often you wash whites vs colors...whether you’re heating your water beyond “recommended” and how often you run your AC.

The “internet” will know when you are home and when you are not...and where you are. Who you talked to and what was said.

Your fate will be a lifetime in a fishbowl.

[cgbg]

Alexa thinks I live in Carlsbad, CA—wrong coast.

I like my smart devices stupid!

[Paladin2]

TV show Person of Interest was only a few years ahead of the new reality...

[texas_mrs]

My electricity was off for over 3 hours yesterday, the 5th time since March 29th. All these outages have given me ample time to consider the things I should have that DON'T require electricity, much less the internet, to operate.

Time to visit the prepper forums.

[dangerdoc]

We recently had to take the keys from my FIL, don’t want a self driving car now but hope the are available when it’s time for me to stop driving.

[tbw2]

Your freedom of travel being lost because your ID is denied use of self-driving cars and there are no others, and the same act could ban you on public transit.

The other dangerous impact of self-driving vehicles - driver is the biggest single job category in most states. What the heck are those people going to do? We already have the working class dying from depression and drugs because they are crowded out by both immigrants and automation.

[Chickensoup]

If you think there’s no privacy now, just wait another 10-15 years. The “internet” will know the dimensions, consistency and weight of every turd you drop. “It” will know the hours you keep, what you watch and read...and it will link it all with your purchasing data. How often you wash whites vs colors...whether you’re heating your water beyond “recommended” and how often you run your AC.

The “internet” will know when you are home and when you are not...and where you are. Who you talked to and what was said.

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Most of this is already known you can receive and hour by hour electric usage report and this info is kept indefinitely. You are already watched a lot.

Smart meters.