Always listening too. Just mention something, you don’t even have to have searched online for the subject or item, next thing my phone gets a pop up ad in my email. 24/7 eyes & ears surveillance on us, we the “free”.
Correct. And many wholeheartedly embrace it. Amazon echos for the kids! An Amazon Echo Studio for me! Hands free driving, i.e. voice control (listening in) features to keep your hands on the wheel. For your SaFeTy!
Somehow people let any given explanation do the job to explain this away, but I can only think "creepy" and have frustration about it.
You can deGoogle Android, but you can't deGoogle an iPhone or a television.
Worst thing is that it's pretty extralegal right now because you are in a somewhat binding agreement just by using a product -- which is dumb, because for some reason digital products are the only ones that can do this.
The government just successfully outsources it to third parties, then either buys or forcibly takes the data through well established backdoors (a la iOS, but everyone is delusional if they think that Apple is the only one with a government backdoor).
I don't let my phone connect to my car, but other family have and now I've heard snippets of phone conversations and their playlists when I pull up to their houses.
Always listening too. Just mention something, you don’t even have to have searched online for the subject or item, next thing my phone gets a pop up ad in my email. 24/7 eyes & ears surveillance on us, we the “free”.
Correct. And many wholeheartedly embrace it. Amazon echos for the kids! An Amazon Echo Studio for me! Hands free driving, i.e. voice control (listening in) features to keep your hands on the wheel. For your SaFeTy!
Somehow people let any given explanation do the job to explain this away, but I can only think "creepy" and have frustration about it.
You can deGoogle Android, but you can't deGoogle an iPhone or a television.
Worst thing is that it's pretty extralegal right now because you are in a somewhat binding agreement just by using a product -- which is dumb, because for some reason digital products are the only ones that can do this.
The government just successfully outsources it to third parties, then either buys or forcibly takes the data through well established backdoors (a la iOS, but everyone is delusional if they think that Apple is the only one with a government backdoor).
I don't let my phone connect to my car, but other family have and now I've heard snippets of phone conversations and their playlists when I pull up to their houses.
We need thicker houses, right? /s 😋