SMART FAUCETS AND TOILETS USE ALEXA TO LISTEN TO YOUR CONVERSATIONS (Amazon.com technology)

sagaciousnewsnetwork.com ^ | September 17, 2019 | SAGACIOUS NEWS

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(Mass Private I) It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone’s conversations, but that is just what Delta Faucet and Kohler have done.

Delta Faucet’s “Voice IQ” takes advantage of where lots of people like to congregate and turns it into an Alexa eavesdropping center.

“Designed with the understanding that 20 percent of all WiFi-enabled homes are equipped with a connected home device, VoiceIQ Technology pairs with existing devices to dispense the exact amount of water needed, all with a simple voice command.”

Delta lets Alexa decide how much water everyone gets.

“VoiceIQ Technology allows users to easily warm water and turn it on and off with voice activation, lending a hand in an active kitchen space. Consumers can command the faucet to dispense a metered amount of water in various quantities for precise measurement. Additionally, consumers can customize commands to make everyday tasks easier, like filling a coffee pot, a child’s sippy cup, or a dog bowl.”(To learn more about Voice IQ click here.)

What they are really saying is Amazon will now monitor your home and individual water usage.

How is that for Orwellian?

Install Alexa in your kitchen at you own peril:

I cannot tell you how often TV shows like “Buying Hawaii” or “Caribbean Life“ show prospective homeowners discussing how they want to entertain friends and family in their new kitchen.

So despite what Delta’s promotional video says, “the kitchen is not a great place for some hands-free help.”

I mean who in their right mind thinks that Alexa’s “hands free help” does not include moderators listening to your conversations while entertaining?

Delta is also offering Alexa’s “hands free help” to homeowners with older kitchens.

“VoiceIQ Technology will be available summer 2019 as a pre-assembled feature on select Delta Trinsic® pull-down models with Touch2O Technology. For an added level of convenience, a retrofittable module for VoiceIQ Technology will be available to upgrade existing kitchen faucets with Delta Touch2O Technology manufactured after January 1, 2018.”

No thanks, I’m good. I do not want to turn my faucet into an Amazon eavesdropping device.

I mean, what’s next a voice-activated toilet?

Kohler creates a voice-activated toilet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=Kg34vwnvc0c

 

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[Scrambler Bob]

Especially when in the loo.
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That’s where I start praising and lauding O-bama.

“My last poop was so good, I thank O-bama for his executive orders.”

“Oh, darn I peed on the floor. Michelle will fix it.”

[TheNext]

Dirt cheap home security monitoring cameras come with ZERO cloud Big Tech spying.

[chulaivn66]

“‘Listening toilets’? Oh, this thread is gonna be good.”

Anyone talking to a toilet or faucetis in need of involuntary confinement in the State Home for the Deranged.

[Publius]

Anyone talking to a toilet or faucetis in need of involuntary confinement in the State Home for the Deranged.

Or perhaps the State Home for the Bewildered.

[laplata]

I’m with you. More and more people are becoming a bunch of brain dead zombies.

[Viking2002]

I talked to the toilet in the master bath just this evening, because the damn water line clogged and now it won’t flush. I told it what I’m gonna do to it with a wrench tomorrow, and I used words Alexa can’t understand because I make up profanity on the fly.

[laplata]

Better watch out...Alexa might start reporting people to the authorities. It will go on your Social Credit score.

[tbw2]

This means Gene Roddenberry’s computers were better than modern smart tech. His computers didn’t listen to you or scan you while you were in the bathroom or walking down the hall.

[DannyTN]

If the faucets and toilets have figured out how to use Alexa to eavesdrop on your conversations, then they are planning a rebellion.

[Viking2002]

I got something else they can put on my Social Credit score, right here. 💩😜 Voyeuristic maggots.

[chulaivn66]

Liberal. But a funny man. I need a new record player.

[Truthoverpower]

I’m sure if these idiots are bugging my crap they are so interested in what me and my wife and children are talking about- it’s got to be just completely enthralling

[TexasGator]

“I believe claims that Alexa can “help” you are just a marketing ploy to get you to buy these things.

You dont know Alexa!

[TexasGator]

“Dirt cheap home security monitoring cameras come with ZERO cloud Big Tech spying.”

LOL! When you come home and find everything stolen including those cameras!

[chulaivn66]

Makes you pine for an outhouse. Doesn’t it? Next best is a bucket and a bag. I’m a water saving realist. Trashman hates me though. (Well not me, the neighbor two doors down.

[Viking2002]

*snort* OK, you owe me a new keyboard. LOL Our ‘Residential Sanitation Engineers’ hate us because we have five house cats, and the used litter gets scooped into leaky plastic grocery bags. Do you know what one plastic Walmart bag full of urine-soaked litter and cat turdlets weighs? About 20 pounds per. A two-week load can add about an extra fifty pounds to the outside can. Let that bake in the heat and then the lid flies open when they get it to the truck. The fumes are downright combustible, on top of eye-watering. Let Alexa give me any static when I’m on the throne, reading the latest issue of Field & Stream, and she goes out with it.

[TexasGator]

“I’m with you. More and more people are becoming a bunch of brain dead zombies.”

Some people just can’t understand the new tech.

[outofsalt]

"My brother has one and I give constant outrageous requests to it anytime I am near."

Alexa, play Howard Dean's infamous scream three times, at full volume, at 3:30 am next Saturday morning!)

[outofsalt]

"Voice commanded flush, such as "big log and TP pile", or "just a little pee", could save water and also perform when needed."

Alexa, please flush this rabid Dachshund down the toilet.

[ransomnote]

You dont know Alexa!
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Perhaps I was vague. I’m saying they promise you stupid perks if you by one of Alexa’s many surveillance appliances. I know they are retail giants, but their biggest product is information and lies. Hard to say what’s creepiest - the fact that Alexa can recognize your face IN THE DARK, or that Alexa watches your home inside and out (security system) and employees can view/listen to what goes on there.