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Your own, personal, surveillance capitalism golem
by shoo 8y ago
Your own, personal, surveillance capitalism golem
- taneq 8y agoThey didn't have a network connection, did they? So they're much more your own personal surveillance golem than anything put out these days by Mattel (or anyone else selling internet-connected devices) which are all very much someone else's surveillance golem.
- EvanAnderson 8y agoThey have an IR sensor and emitter. That's a network of a fashion.
- xg15 8y agoWell yes, but it's missing the giant cloud backend that will record every interaction and the tangle of Big Data, adtech and other analytics companies on the other side.
- cafard 8y agoThe feds did ban Furbies from secure facilities.
- fredrikhl 8y agoI'd like to meet the agent trying to bring his Furby to work.