not sure exactly where to put this, the new google and amazon voice actuated products

Post #416,274 by boxley 12/27/16 12:35:57 PM 12/27/16 12:35:57 PM Reply	not sure exactly where to put this, the new google and amazon voice actuated products 10 years ago, could you imagine listening devices placed in every american home? Today, the american people are paying for these listening devices and planting them where all can be heard and monitored! National insanity. always look out for number one and don't step in number two
Post #416,277 by dmcarls 12/27/16 2:27:28 PM 12/27/16 2:27:28 PM Reply	Not just in homes... [...] "Wynn Resorts, which owns and operates Wynn Las Vegas, plans on installing nearly 5,000 Amazon Echo speakers in its Vegas hotel rooms in an effort to make them feel like mini smart homes." [...] https://www.yahoo.com/tech/vegas-hotel-installing-amazon-echo-speakers-every-room-212647543.html Then there's this: "During the course of their investigation, police issued a warrant to Amazon requesting data in the form of audio recordings, transcribed records, and other text records from Bates’ Echo." http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/27/14089836/amazon-echo-privacy-criminal-investigation-data And so it goes. From 'The Prisoner': "Citizens use the phrase "Be seeing you" as a farewell, accompanied by a waving gesture consisting of thumb and forefinger forming a circle over the eye, then tipped forward in a salute. This may be a reminder that in the Village you are under constant surveillance;..."
Post #416,279 by boxley 12/27/16 3:55:55 PM 12/27/16 3:55:55 PM Reply	so Wynn resorts are out then :-( always look out for number one and don't step in number two
Post #416,288 by malraux 12/27/16 5:00:38 PM 12/27/16 5:00:38 PM Reply	Re: Not just in homes... The Sheriff's secret police would like to remind citizens to speak clearly and in the direction of the closest light fixture when holding secret conversations, in order to facilitate their jobs. Gestures and discussions about the latest sport scores are also appreciated as an aid to keeping their task more interesting. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #416,563 by dmcarls 1/9/17 2:45:53 PM 1/9/17 2:45:53 PM Reply	Listen up! [...] " It even includes a microphone that listens to the sound of hair brushing, ..." [...] http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/04/loreals-smart-brush-listens-to-hair-recommends-luxury-treatments.html
Post #416,565 by mmoffitt 1/9/17 3:10:38 PM 1/9/17 3:10:38 PM Reply	First Siri, then Google Assistant, then Alexa, then Trump. Just when you thought your bathroom was the only place left that Corporate America would leave you alone comes that. Swell. bcnu, Mikem Social Media is for Sociopaths.
Post #416,566 by drook 1/9/17 3:43:45 PM 1/9/17 3:43:45 PM Reply	I thought this was a just a joke -- Drew
Post #416,961 by dmcarls 2/2/17 3:48:46 PM 2/2/17 3:48:46 PM Reply	Hey! did you see anything? Some more on this topic. [...] "Alexa is at the forefront of all of this right now, but what will become more interesting for police from an investigative perspective is when they’re eventually not interviewing just one device in your home, but interviewing 20 devices in your home. In the very same way that you would ask multiple witnesses at the scene of a homicide or a car crash." [more...] https://singularityhub.com/2017/01/31/when-electronic-witnesses-are-everywhere-no-secrets-safe/ A lot of food for thought here!
Post #416,976 by Another Scott 2/2/17 11:43:51 PM 2/2/17 11:43:51 PM Reply	Our laws need to catch up with stuff like that... :-/
Post #417,425 by dmcarls 3/8/17 3:25:11 PM 3/8/17 3:25:11 PM Reply	Be careful out there... http://www.corpcounsel.com/id=1202780719018/Amazon-Avoiding-First-Amendment-Clash-Drops-Objections-to-Echo-Warrant/?slreturn=20170208151540 "SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon Inc. has agreed to hand over recordings from an "Echo" device that was in the home of a murder suspect in Arkansas, after initially resisting doing so on First Amendment grounds. In a stipulation filed Monday in the Circuit Court of Benton County, Arkansas, Amazon's attorneys at Davis Wright Tremaine wrote that defendant James Bates had consented to the production of the recordings from his Echo, and that its motion to quash a warrant seeking the data was now moot." [...] "The device stores user requests remotely on Amazon's servers so that users can review what they asked for, the results, and even transcripts of what they said." more...
Post #416,284 by a6l6e6x 12/27/16 4:23:20 PM 12/27/16 4:23:20 PM Reply	One of the talking heads on CNBC has a wife named Alexa. Great fun with an Echo! Even I wouldn't want to risk having one about. :) Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov

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