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Lucylastic -> RE: Trump wiretap claims (3/15/2017 12:55:23 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Aylee
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice
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Seen on social media: "They spy on you through your microwaves because they know it's the one place you can't put tin foil." [:)]
This would be funny except that people's TVs are spying on them.
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2017/02/07/vizio-caught-spying-on-customers-through-their-tvs/
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The popular TV maker Vizio began in 2014 to incorporate software into its TV sets to collect information about our viewing habits on a second-by-second basis. Then, working with a data analytics company, they were able to associate that data with very detailed and specific personal information of the viewers. Yes, Vizio sold you a TV set and turned around and spied on you as a thank you for your business!
Vizio installed the software on 11 million TV sets without ever asking for permission or informing their owners that they were collecting the data. After a lawsuit was filed by the FTC and the state of New Jersey, Vizio settled and paid a fine of $2.2 million.
And in Germany, some people are destroying dolls.
https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/02/20/these-dolls-were-classified-as-hidden-espionage-devices-in-one-country/
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Since My Friend Cayla has the potential to steal the information of the children who play with it, she is a no-no in Germany. The doll has been removed from the market by the Federal Network Agency, and parents who have already purchased Cayla are actually expected to destroy her. Seem a little extreme? Maybe not when it comes to small children.
Consumerist explains how the toy operates:
They connect via Bluetooth to a mobile phone app, usually belonging to a parent, and then from there access the internet in order to interact with kids and answer their questions. To accomplish that feat, the apps record and collect conversations between the toys and the kids, and use speech-to-text protocols to turn kids’ questions into searchable queries.
When users first set up the app for their toy, they may be sharing data you don’t want shared. Cayla in particular asks for multiple pieces of personal information — the child’s name, their parents’ names, their school name, their hometown, among other questions — so it can converse more naturally. The app also allows for location setting, and both the Cayla and i-Que apps collect users’ IP addresses.
If that doesn't creep you out, maybe this will: the information is then transmitted to the servers at the headquarters of Nuance Communications, the company that provides Cayla with her voice-parsing services.
I am not so sure about the whole "internet of things."
I suppose that the microwave MIGHT be spying on you if it is connected to the internet.
Heres one I thought you might find ...interesting ( I had heard of the ones you mentioned before, but this is new to me too)
Those online apps to remote control vibes... good idea for fun, but not exactly private.
Vibrator Maker To Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/14/520123490/vibrator-maker-to-pay-millions-over-claims-it-secretly-tracked-use
The makers of the We-Vibe, a line of vibrators that can be paired with an app for remote-controlled use, have reached a $3.75 million class action settlement with users following allegations that the company was collecting data on when and how the sex toy was used.
Standard Innovations, the Canadian manufacturer of the We-Vibe, does not admit any wrongdoing in the settlement finalized Monday.
The We-Vibe product line includes a number of Bluetooth-enabled vibrators that, when linked to the "We-Connect" app, can be controlled from a smartphone. It allows a user to vary rhythms, patterns and settings — or give a partner, in the room or anywhere in the world, control of the device. (You can see a video promoting the app's features here; be advised, it is briefly not safe for work.)
more at the link
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