As I was reading the long article "Smart talking: are our devices threatening our privacy?" it became obvious to me that devices listening and recording everything you say was not very well known to most people. Maybe because everyone does not understand exactly how their products work, but it makes sense they are always listening because the amazon echo would always have to listen for voice commands to work. As people are concerned about their privacy so much, would it really be that hard to give up a voice command speaker for the sake of their privacy?
People seemingly are now just realizing that everything that they are doing is being recorded, but this has been done for a long time. Websites use cookies to track down all your activity, which is mainly used to target ads in which you would be interested in. Many apps on your phone will say that they take records of many things which is said in the terms of service agreement that no one reads. Its not really all that surprising that almost everything we do on our electronics are recorded, and possibly seen by the government, but what are your thoughts on the privacy issue?
-Josh Fernandez
I agree with everything you said here, but it seems you forgot about the dangers of hackers. When it comes to listening in on our devices, we shouldn't worry too much of the companies who produce them, but the hackers who can get our information. If we have these Amazon devices in our home, hackers can listen in on our everyday private conversations.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your point. This has been occuring for a long time where we have devices that are always listening. Especially those smart home devises that respond to a command like "Hey Siri" or "Hey Google". A few minutes ago I was online shopping for a watch for my grandpa and when I left the website to open another I would get ads for the same brand and other watches. It's crazy how we are tracked like this just like you said. We should really be more cautious about this and it's important to actually read the Terms and Conditions since we never really know what we are agreeing with.
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