Topic: The internet of things: how your TV, car and toys could spy on you (Read 1004 times)

i totally agree with you.. all the government wants to surpress their public with different ways.. spying via these technological devices are one of them and the most dangerous ones i guess..

Problem is not with companies doing this but government letting companies doing it :/

Governments do not bring change, its the people that bring in serious change.
Problem now is how powerful these companies have become and how reliant people are on their products.
1984 will continue till we out right riot. Companies now submit to the people till the issue fades and try again.
One aspect for these products listening in could be faster evolution of the product. Least that would be the argument.

They are looking for something interesting to find like a casual conversation of 2 politicians that can be used against them later

Sometimes I'm really glad I live in a time forgotten land, Serbia. No one really gives a shit about anyone.

Its both, you can not run a cell phone companie without backdoors for government in North America. Some of these companies are also big enough to dictate policy.

Problem is not with companies doing this but government letting companies doing it :/

Not so much big brother but more the issue of tech companies exploiting all possible holes. Seems to attract people that are a little less connected to people.
Data is just to important these days for them not to try exploiting us.

I would absolutely love to know what they're doing with all those voice recordings. What possible use would it be listening to people abusing assholes on talent shows and threatening their kids?

A Samsung smart tv's privacy policy -  “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.”

It's all around already, kids.

The internet of things: how your TV, car and toys could spy on you

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/10/internet-of-things-surveillance-smart-tv-cars-toys

<< Can your smart TV spy on you? Absolutely, says the US director of national intelligence. The ever-widening array of "smart" web-enabled devices pundits have dubbed the internet of things [IoT] is a welcome gift to intelligence officials and law enforcement, according to director James Clapper. "In the future, intelligence services might use the [internet of things] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials", Clapper told the Senate in public testimony on Tuesday.

As a category, the internet of things is useful to eavesdroppers both official and unofficial for a variety of reasons, the main one being the leakiness of the data. "One helpful feature for surveillance is that private sector IoT generally blabs a lot, routinely into some server, somewhere",said Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "That data blabbing can be insecure in the air, or obtained from storage".

There are a wide variety of devices that can be used to listen in, and some compound devices (like cars) that have enough hardware to form a very effective surveillance suite all by themselves. There are, of course, legitimate and tightly warranted reasons for law enforcement surveillance, and there are also companies that take hard lines against turning their users over to the government. But hardware manufacturers often default to crummy security, or don't offer a choice, and consumers often make themselves more vulnerable than they should. >>

A Samsung smart tv's privacy policy -  “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.”

It's all around already, kids.