may be i reasteam your post dear sir

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.

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.

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.

great job ,i have experienced it myself

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.

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

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

These things were always gonna go down this route. Hopefully in the future people will be more aware and learn how to deactivate/power down the Orwellian features.

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.

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

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

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

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.

amazing post

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

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!

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.

Amen!

Preach!

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.

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!

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

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

hahaha yes I remember that episode.

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

Season 21, Episode 1. Fairly recent.

The best bit was the Jimbob scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sij8Mt9RL_M

Lmao

rofl.

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

This is too funny!!! 😂😂😂

Lmfao! Thank you man day made!

Just another reason to love Cartman:)

hahaha
it was funny

asdf

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.

Patience lots of it. And posts like these.

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!

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"

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

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

I think so

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 ;)

lol

i am a fresh,i wanna make friends here

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

This is no secret anymore...

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.

NSA ?

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

Scary

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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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.

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

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.

wow

Right? It was strange.

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.

@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.

not surprised at all

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I would love to .. but I have no phone..

scary information. no more privacy in this world.

What a surprise.

the movie "1984" seemed to be a blueprint for life as we know it .phones are no better gooogle is not your friend ladies and gentlemen,VPN and proxy up!

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?"

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.

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!

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.

Thanks for sharing, yet I hate to say I'm not surprised by this at all. This is why I want to live in BFE.
Things like this are becoming normal, that's what scary.

Not in my home.

I mean.. they don't need patents to do this, within 3 metres of me there must be at least 4 if not 5 microphones, and when you're in public literally everyone has a microphone in their smartphones & watches.

Bagai mana caranya ?

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

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.

They're what!

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We are entering the matrix :)
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Yet STILL, when you try to warn people they look at you like you are a crazy person...What do you do?

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.

snap, I don't even own a smartphone

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

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

Good!!

Scary to know this happen.

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.

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?

Nice video

it will play an undesirable sound XD

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.

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

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

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.

they all are spying on us

I like your work and I will voted you ^^

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

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

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

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Wow..
Kindly upvote

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

I think so

wow

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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Scary!!!

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we are in technologu era.
hope that many of the porodcuts are useful for us.
but they may also have some side effects.
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We are being watched in one way or the other and we only need to be very careful.

love it!

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

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

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

Big brother indeed.

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

Why do people need such stupid devices.

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

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

George Orwells nightmare.

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!

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.

Good video! Since long I’m telling people that these are spy tools but they just laugh at me. The same goes for anti-virus software, apps, browser plugins, browsers in general, smartphones in general and I don’t know what more. Nobody cares…

You had to know something like this would be uncovered, eventually.

Interesting

Who's watching?
Tell me who's watching.
Who's watching me?
I'm just an average man, with an average life.
I work from nine to five; hey hell, I pay the price.
All I want is to be left alone in my average home;
But why do I always feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone, and
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
And I have no privacy.
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.
Tell me is it just a dream?
When I come home at night.
I bolt the door real tight.
People call me on the phone I'm trying to avoid.
Well, can the people on T.V. see me.
Or am I just paranoid?
When I'm in the shower.
I'm afraid to wash my hair.
'Cause I might open my eyes
And find someone standing there.
People say I'm crazy.
Just a little touched.
But maybe showers remind me of
"Psycho" too much.
That's why. . .
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
And I have no privacy.
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.
Who's playing tricks on me?
Who's watching me?
I don't know anymore . . . are the neighbors watching
Who's watching?
Well, it's the mailman watching me: and I don't feel safe anymore.
Tell me who's watching.
Oh, what a mess. I wonder who's watching me now,
(WHO?) the I.R.S.?
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
And I have no privacy.
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.
Who's playing tricks on me?
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
And I have no privacy.
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I can't enjoy my tea.
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I want my privacy.
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.
Stop playing tricks on me
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.

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great

Im stocking up on these...someday it'll be a valuable timepiece collectible!

Do you know that google and facebook watch over us. You can read more about this in my blog.

Upvoted and resteemed, thanks for the info.

I think it is obvious they spy

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You know when people started talking about this kind of stuff, they were called crazy or loony conspirators. People are starting to catch on. They have devices in some TV /monitors to watch and listen to you. It is the strangest thing to me that people in power want more control and power.

Recently there has been news about Motel 6 spying on guests for the govt. The excuse is that "illegal aliens" where staying there. I know for sure that they spy on regular folks as well.

Look at Mark Zuckerberg. They have a photo of him next to his phone with tape on the camera. If he is afraid of being spied on, guess what...we should be too!

Excellent continues to give interesting information

to be honest, with such power, it would be insane not to use it. after all, they are corporations and $ is their top priority. you should be more afraid of what we haven't figured out what they are doing to gain more power and wealth.

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

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)

i think coming. amazon

24 hours later, weed and bong recommendations were all over my Facebook. lol

Often times I talk about a specific item while sitting in the living room to my husband, like "I would love a new dyson vacuum" or "our dog needs more snacks" and within the next few minutes there is a commercial on tv about exactly what I was speaking about! I know it's not a coincidence.. also my tv turns off every night at 2am for an "update" hmm..

Mike Adams from NaturalNews.com exposed this two years ago.

The best thing to do is NOT link your phone to Facebook by NEVER EVER logging into your FB account with it!

That was my first thought when I learned of these devices. No way in hell I'll ever have one in my home.

I keep emailing Microsoft asking for a way to permanently disable Cortana, and will continue to do so until they get sick enough of me to comply, since i did NOT pay to be spied upon.

Similarly I would never use Siri, rarely use Google or Amazon, and on the rare occasion that I do, it is through StartPage AND a VPN.

Big Brother is here to stay, and there are ways to protect ourselves, but we need to be diligent in implementing them.

For example, when purchasing new electronics, I default to non-smart devices whenever possible, and when not, I simply deny them access to our wifi router. Simple fix.

They can't spy if they have zero access, and since both the wifi and VPN are password protected, the devices can't gather data or phone home.

Honestly what isn't something that is used to be spying on us nowadays

hahahaha I would do the same if I had the power

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Skynet has awaken......

Wow man

I have always thought that was true. Just a few days ago I was talking to my wife about how I wanted to watch Indiana Jones and the next thing I know I had an add for it on google.

And this is what happens if both google home and echo are forced to talk to one another:
https://youtu.be/ZfCfTYZJWtI

Lol they even get us to pay for it.

At least for the current Amazon Echo Devices this is not implemented. There are two micro controllers inside, one of them is only listening for the activation keyword but has no access to the internet. Once the keyword is detected the other controller is activated and then the voice input is sent to the AWS servers.

Is it something new though? I thought I read somewhere that they already found out these home assistants are spying on you. Anyway nice video.

Around 2:50 mark, where you mentioned the story about work out. I have just one question. Could it be possible that you had GPS on and that you were seen to be at the gym (assuming your gym is registered on maps)? Since, in that case, it's easier for them to access the information and easy for the user to take some control in their hands (although there are stickers for cameras as well).

I am not trying to deny the story you said, and definitely not trying to deny the possibility to access user's cameras without their consent. But this was just a though that crossed my mind.

You nailed it. Now if the technology is that advanced,
Then that might explain how the new fembot Sophia works, she just might be a glorified Echo or siri...gosh are they on the way to giving those kind of devices human rights and citizenship as well? Will i be forced to buy health insurance for my smart phone in the future?lol, what bizarre world!
Great writing and a very good read.

A Reason why i bought a "Smart Assistant" to test what it can do. I had read Code and made my own Skill System. I ignored Advertisements but i Trigger The System multiple times with uninteresting things (for me) every day for about 3 monthes. The Respons was that my sides was with uninteresting Advertisment. Thats as acsample is a good Way out of this. As at last i maked a hostlist thats block the receiving Websites of my answers. A little bit of search, i find the adress.

The idea is that A.I. and our common lives will soon merge, there are only 2 ways into this, 1)We will all benefit in humanities advancements 2)We will be easily controlled by the elite
Seeing the worlds history, the latter is very probable, as the rich have no intention in not continuing to be so, and keeping everything under control just get easier for them...damn sad

I loved your post..

MY opinion on this topic!
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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.

WHOA!

it is amazing information regarding google and amazone

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.

thanks

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!

That´s scary, I will never buy one. A cousin of my girlfriend owns a Alexa and we order by accident on his birthday party a garden chair without noticing it.