BUSTED! Google &amp; Amazon &quot;Digital Assistant&quot; Patents For Spying Exposed!

caleb983 (36) · 7 years ago

What if I put a phone next to another phone and play them off each other? Will they get advertisements for each other?

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rossdcurrie (50) · 7 years ago

Did you see that episode of South Park where Cartman did it? He triggered a chain reaction, it was great, made only better by news reports that it triggered chain reactions for viewers around the world

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5 votes

evoclen (25) · 7 years ago

Just another reason to love Cartman:)

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fernandorivera (36) · 7 years ago

hahaha yes I remember that episode.

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whatintarnation (25) · 7 years ago

I think I've seen that episode but I wanna watch it again lol, sauce??

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rossdcurrie (50) · 7 years ago

Season 21, Episode 1. Fairly recent.

The best bit was the Jimbob scene.

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11 votes

julzee (46) · 7 years ago

Lmao

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me-x (34) · 7 years ago

rofl.

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nexusvortex777 (50) · 7 years ago

Oh shit, that's epic! Better than Alex Jones arguing with Alexa!

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zzuper (27) · 7 years ago

This is too funny!!! 😂😂😂

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whatintarnation (25) · 7 years ago

Lmfao! Thank you man day made!

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nanabaakan (38) · 7 years ago

But how do you tell people about the dangers of these devices?? They are new toys for them, new gadgets, they don't seem to realize how invasive they are.

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dirkboy41 (53) · 7 years ago

Indeed. If they're listening for a trigger word, they're basically listening all the time. Very scary...

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reidlist (56) · 7 years ago

"Hey wiretap, how many ounces are in a cup?"

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nexusvortex777 (50) · 7 years ago

The brainwashed sheeple aren't going to believe us, I mean think about it, most of these people are in love with the propaganda mind control bullshit that the MSM spoon feeds them!

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gg-wp-sir (25) · 7 years ago

Perhabs it would help if they were regulated and forced by law to disclose this type of information to their customers,kinda how cigarettes companies are forced to write on the box "Smoking kills you"

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sagenomad (56) · 7 years ago

Patience lots of it. And posts like these.

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gkumar (47) · 7 years ago

hahaha
it was funny

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jason85 (25) · 7 years ago

asdf

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safetony (47) · 7 years ago

maybe this explains it "Alphabet, which took over as Google’s new holding company on Friday, has dropped the tech giant’s “Don’t Be Evil”" now the gloves are off ;)

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moche6 (8) · 7 years ago

I think so

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3 votes

wescall (25) · 7 years ago

lol

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curry4three66 (27) · 7 years ago

i am a fresh,i wanna make friends here

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craim100 (58) · 7 years ago

i think coming. amazon

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sonia132 (46) · 7 years ago

thanks

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mikeycolon (63) · 7 years ago

You'd be foolish to be surprised by this. I unplug my wife's Echo all the time.

When I told my mom how Amazon listens in she could care less because she doesn't have sensative information. I told her that's not the point and it's sad people willingly put up with it plus pay for these devices!

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6 votes

markkujantunen (74) · 7 years ago (edited)

What your wife and many other people fail to understand is that whether or not some piece of information is sensitive is highly contextual. Some innocent piece of information could prove the missing piece of a puzzle to any hostile party attempting to use your information.

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mikeycolon (63) · 7 years ago

Amen!

Preach!

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seanp (25) · 7 years ago

Not surprised at all. I don't mind the advertising aspect since if I'd rather have an ad that's relevant to my interests than not. What bothers me is how often this 'market research' data collection is abused to identify, target and/or take action against groups of people socially or politically.

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safetony (47) · 7 years ago (edited)

nothing to hide nothing to fear unfortunately if they know what your going to do/buy because they know all your habits you will suffer economic loss and you won't even realise it!

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skycornish (55) · 7 years ago

I can't believe people actually want those listening devices! Worst idea ever!

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eight-rad (58) · 7 years ago

Lol they even get us to pay for it.

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cryptorg (60) · 7 years ago

Privacy violation it seems that it was performed one with the development of technology. Today's Meltdown and Specter just revealed that the CHIPS used in computers, tablets and smartphones has a fault/vulnerability through which hackers can get personal information from those devices. I would say that this is not a fault but a seed planter by their creators. So, YES, we are targeted and used in order to commercialize our personal information. Hopefully with the blockchain there aren't hidden "gems" within.

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nathandduvall (44) · 7 years ago

Convenient that every citizen and business must now buy new devices and computers once "new chips" become available.

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cryptorg (60) · 7 years ago

Convenient for the companies, unfortunate for us the end users...:(

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rossdcurrie (50) · 7 years ago

At this point, I think the only thing more shocking than big companies like this using their tech to spy on us, is that people are still being shocked by this.

Everyone knows, and I think to some extent people just don't care. They're happy to be spied on as long as it makes it easier to find that song they were listening to last week.

"Hey Siri, what was that song that came on at the club the other week?"

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3 votes

dhn0411 (7) · 7 years ago

Welcome to the internet of things. They are studying us, so they can subsume us into their internet of everything. Hey at least it’s not physically painful.

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labeilleneigeux (42) · 7 years ago

who cares what +- 1 gradus of temperature in a refrigerator but they still didn’t teach their robots to find my shoes. how suspiciously it is!

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th1nkfast (56) · 7 years ago

Wow, I'm never putting one of those at my house, I rather have some arduinos!

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bestgift (67) · 7 years ago

This is not new, we are being watched in one way or the other we only need to be careful.

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raiwangc (25) · 7 years ago

I think so

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ekaashu (12) · 7 years ago

wow

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arielpr (52) · 7 years ago

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raphal (39) · 7 years ago

hahahaha I would do the same if I had the power

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nzfxtrader (52) · 7 years ago (edited)

Getting ready to super pimp slap the first idiot that says "im not doing anything wrong so i dont care"

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rachelg (25) · 7 years ago

I'm with you on that, no you are not doing anything wrong until the powers that be decide you are

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somena (56) · 7 years ago

Saying "I don't care about being spied upon because I have nothing to hide" is like saying "I don't care about freedom of speech being taken away, because I have nothing to say". (Edward Snowden)

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muzammilhusssain (31) · 7 years ago

How funny. I haven’t watched TV in 20 years … If you get one of those retarded things you don’t need at all and it spies on you then its your fault for being a moron. go ahead try to wake up the morons. I have a flip phone too.

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3 votes

dhn0411 (7) · 7 years ago

Jokes on them! That’s why I always decline the agreement.

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lochsteemit (42) · 7 years ago

I feel like it's already too late. Siri, that clever girl, has been onto me for over a year now. If I even talk about an oil change, sure as shit, Jiffy Lube will hit me with an email & promo offer in minutes.

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djviamo (25) · 7 years ago

Wow man

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mrraptorious (25) · 7 years ago

I knew it, its scary as hell that they listen to you always. I am a softwaredeveloper and know that information is so important and everybody wants to analyse you. Knowledge equals power.

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jaysermendez (63) · 7 years ago

It will always happen. They always want to know the behavior of the client to collect data and make money from us -_-

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greenbeans (44) · 7 years ago

Skynet has awaken......

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koljak (40) · 7 years ago

I wonder if their future models will be able to interface directly with the brain. I'm sure they'll be filing those patents in the not too distant future.

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falsefreedom (41) · 7 years ago

Yet STILL, when you try to warn people they look at you like you are a crazy person...What do you do?

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johnnyderp (26) · 7 years ago

BREAKING NEWS : those things are always listening. second : nobody gives a funk about your porn search queries

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seldos (43) · 7 years ago

MY opinion on this topic!
https://steemit.com/opinion/@seldos/why-i-think-the-video-google-facebook-is-spying-on-us-is-bullsh-t

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hardiansyah04 (33) · 7 years ago

Bagai mana caranya ?

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moche6 (8) · 7 years ago

Wow..
Kindly upvote

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ufos97 (25) · 7 years ago

Nice video

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theforceunleash (29) · 7 years ago (edited)

They're what!

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playonstereo (37) · 7 years ago

Upvoted and resteemed, thanks for the info.

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joeyp978 (41) · 7 years ago

Scary

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andyfishman (53) · 7 years ago

Wow, so Google have captured Santa Claus and distilled his essence into their smart devices so as to monitor whether the children are behaving! How much more proof do you need of the evil of these people?

#FreeSantaNow

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bitgeek (62) · 7 years ago

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mulyadi.alwi (47) · 7 years ago

then I try to like what you write in the article by spying

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bruizer (31) · 7 years ago

I have to laugh at myself, it wasn't that long ago that I used to think that it was a coincidence when something I'd been googling suddenly appears in an ad. OMG I was terrible with technology. I've improved a little, enough to know that I'm not buying those sh***y products.

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viraldrome (67) · 7 years ago

My friend was telling me about his google home, I was like why do you want to talk to your home. Google is making alarm systems now, making them my competition. They don't gave a big market share (yet), I'm going to remind people you can get smart home / home alarm systems that respect your privacy.

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thedolphin (52) · 7 years ago

We are entering the matrix :)
https://steemit.com/matrix/@thedolphin/the-matrix-is-here-already

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arista (47) · 7 years ago

nice post...@pressfortruth

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kevinjoseph (25) · 7 years ago

wow

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thevegancyclist (33) · 7 years ago

NSA ?

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rip-youtube (50) · 7 years ago

Yesterday I dropped a can of soup on my foot and instinctively yelled the "F-Word," and sure enough, within (20) minutes there was a prostitute at my door!

Seriously, I wouldn't have one of these devices in my home if they paid me!

Thanks for a very important post.

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rachelg (25) · 7 years ago

snap, I don't even own a smartphone

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rip-youtube (50) · 7 years ago

Haha, you might be the smartest one out of us all. ;-)

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vangelov (60) · 7 years ago

Man I've known this since a month back. Advertisement on these shit ass speakers is so insane and they suck hard really. Everything this cranky thing can do I can do 100000x fold on my semy old android phone.

I'd rather put my phone to a 3.5 Bluetooth speaker

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pardin (25) · 7 years ago

Good!!

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verasj (65) · 7 years ago

Scary to know this happen.

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themanwithnoname (64) · 7 years ago

Don't have any in my house. Won't have any in my house. I don't really need anyone to be listening in to everything that is going on. None of their business.

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nugent09 (33) · 7 years ago

Everything is spying on us now days, have you ever googled something, or searched something on amazon then got onto Facebook and that thing you looked up is now being something you would like suggested by Facebook?

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rball8970 (45) · 7 years ago

Anybody using these devices in their home needs to be educated. Most people do not even care about being heavily watched. They are happy to give full access to their lives through their phones, laptops, any thing with cameras or microphones. Wifi connected televisions. The list is endless. Automobiles! All because they 'have nothing to hide'. I think it's sick. Thank you @pressfortruth I will be following.

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mikeycolon (63) · 7 years ago

Samsung and other smart tvs are guilty of this as well.

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rball8970 (45) · 7 years ago

Oh I know it! I mentioned wifi connected televisions in my comment. Even the smart LED light bulbs! Lol

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mikeycolon (63) · 7 years ago

Big brother indeed. It's sad people put up with this. 😔

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rball8970 (45) · 7 years ago

It absolutely is. I don't know how it got this bad. Well I do, but I guess what I don't get is how the average person doesn't see a problem with it.

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arisjss (43) · 7 years ago

it will play an undesirable sound XD

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havok777 (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

Schizophrenics were right about some stuff like hidden microphones. But that shouldn't make us bug out and get schizo. Just makes me more pissed off.

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nageshwar0369 (59) · 7 years ago

INTERESTING .
KEEP POSTING AND PLEASE TAKE MY VOTE
THANK YOU

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peeyush (47) · 7 years ago

Such journalists must definitely reward those who spread very good and correct news and suppressing lies and confronting everyone with the truth.

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jawaddandawa (27) · 7 years ago

I think we need to find a solution to this and how to educate the world about it....thank you

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karmara (25) · 7 years ago

What is new? Im pretty sure smart television with voice activation are able to record the viewers. Everyone who have access to internet have given up their right to privacy in one way or another. And the sad part is, no one cares.

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shahfahad096 (36) · 7 years ago

they all are spying on us

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aboragabelgn (26) · 7 years ago

I like your work and I will voted you ^^

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rawdawg (61) · 7 years ago

Great post Dan and very interesting. Had a pretty good idea this was going to start happening a while back. It seems that people have decided to sacrifice privacy for convenience IMHO. Ex.Providing Apple your fingerprints to unlock your phone and/or now providing a pic of your face for facial recognition. I think it’s great that you bring these things to light. I unfortunately don’t think these invasions of privacy will be stopped as long as people are willing to use technology and actually pay for their own privacy to be taken away. A simple solution would be to not buy smart devices at all and don’t use products or services associated with Google.

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ssrizwan87 (50) · 7 years ago

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adimaya (27) · 7 years ago

Imagine a scenario where I put a telephone beside another telephone and play them off each other. Will they get promotions for each other?

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benytg (39) · 7 years ago

Soon we'll all busy keeping big corps from crawling into our life without permission.

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mental-extract (47) · 7 years ago

Honestly, just not surprised any more. After going to school for Software Engineering, this type stuff was just inevitable. Great post, thank you for speaking out the way y'all do! Following & supporting. Cheers!

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friendly-fenix (59) · 7 years ago

This is so practical!!!
Now I can get really nice and relevant ads
on my smartphone this will greatly facilitate
and improve my life. =)

P.S. I love the government D.S.

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newlifeabdo (33) · 7 years ago

amazing post

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masterpiz (48) · 7 years ago

Privacy violation do not necessarily mean so much to some of these device users.
some users do not even know about this

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cryptostoner (26) · 7 years ago

I knew it lol, corporations will always build files on us due to the patriots act after 9-11. We are just slaves with a tab on file regarding just about all our information...

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tspink (49) · 7 years ago

Always wondered if that was going to become reality. Read a story some time back about an Amazon Echo calling the cops on a Husband that was physically abusing his family. So I suppose not all is bad.. Still scary to think about tho.

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andyfishman (53) · 7 years ago

tspink - that is actually terrible. Regardless of what is going on in my house, I do not expect my machinery to intervene. The wife can place a complaint or call the police if that is what is required. How does an item of machinery know what is in fact happening? They could have been into some sort of sick sexualised playacting or something, acting out a rape fantasy. No thanks mate. If and when I need intervention I will not rely on my smart devices (of which I own none) to provide it for me, and until then, I expect no intercession from them.

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markkujantunen (74) · 7 years ago (edited)

Or you could have you kids taken away from you if one them throws a tantrum and one of your gadgets infers that you are abusing them and calls the police.

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raiwangc (25) · 7 years ago

Scary!!!

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team101 (61) · 7 years ago

I don't think anyone likes to be "spied" on. Wonder how long it will be before people want to "unplug" these devices?

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bosssarah (53) · 7 years ago (edited)

This is odd. As I was scrolling through the Steemit feed, my husband was saying he wanted an Alexa, but he didn't know because he doesn't want people to listen to our conversations. And I asked him could it do that, and he said all voice assisted things could including our Xbox. During our conversation just now, I scrolled onto your post. How coincidental. I would think you were listening to our conversation if you wouldn't have made this post 3 hours ago.

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femiandrew (56) · 7 years ago

wow

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bosssarah (53) · 7 years ago

Right? It was strange.

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qami (37) · 7 years ago

we are in technologu era.
hope that many of the porodcuts are useful for us.
but they may also have some side effects.
@qami

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chelseanews (40) · 7 years ago

We are being watched in one way or the other and we only need to be very careful.

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marksoswavey (34) · 7 years ago

love it!

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cryptostoner (26) · 7 years ago

*Meanwhile at Google: Buy this virtual assistant, it will make everything easier!!!
*FBI: LOL GEE GOOGLE U DA CORPORATE ESPIONAGE PLUG

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adamculp (48) · 7 years ago

Yup, the other day I was speaking with my son about buying a speaker. Lately I've seen ads for that speaker, though I have not searched for it or anything. Voice was the only mention possible. The future is now.

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chowdhary (36) · 7 years ago

Not only with device but we are being watched every second. when ever you login any social media website. We are just a data for this companies trying to utilise maximum. and earn from all the means

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enzo3785 (43) · 7 years ago

Can't image that this happened, Amazon and Google - two such altruistic cooperation. caution might be a bit ironic

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izge (51) · 7 years ago

Big brother indeed.

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splendorhub (61) · 7 years ago

@pressfortruth We can't escape spies. In or out of the home. Isn't the current theory that we are all under an experiment ? Best wishes.

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ronspauly (29) · 7 years ago

Why do people need such stupid devices.

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mathy007 (36) · 7 years ago

not surprised at all

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groundfloormedia (31) · 7 years ago

Was always curious about this. Funnily, i was scrolling through facebook and paused at a friends photo of a quick pre-packaged healthy dinner. All of a sudden, Instagram start showing advertisements from the exact same company.

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darthnox (34) · 7 years ago

It's kinda like how facebook has the feature to listen to their users

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jakescvlog (43) · 7 years ago

George Orwells nightmare.

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igster (63) · 7 years ago

It is no longer just some "conspiracy theory" that we are now living in a big brother Orwellian Nightmare.

What wasn't in the books however is that we willingly carry these monitors with us and even buy few to our home!

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holzkohlen (25) · 7 years ago

Oh boy. This is not the government spying on you, it's not an "orwellian nightmare". This is companies trying to send make money with your data buy better marketing towards your interests. This is what Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple et cetera are doing. They've been doing this for years.
If you don't like it you have to be consequent and stop using Android, Apple products, Windows, Google, Amazon, Facebook and so on. You're free to use Linux on your PC, a phone which is supported by Replicant OS, a search engine that respecty your privacy, never use any social media platform (including Steemit and DTube) and never shop online. Good luck, mate.

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