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"Such a world will bring many benefits. Consumers will get convenience, and products that can do things non-computerised versions cannot. Amazon’s Ring smart do
by titzer 7y ago
"Such a world will bring many benefits. Consumers will get convenience, and products that can do things non-computerised versions cannot. Amazon’s Ring smart doorbells, for instance, come equipped with motion sensors and video cameras. Working together, they can also form what is, in effect, a private CCTV network, allowing the firm to offer its customers a “digital neighbourhood-watch” scheme and pass any interesting video along to the police."
This is the best they could come up with as an example for the "many benefits"? Tilt your head only slightly privacy-leaning and this looks like a terrifying dystopia. Of course the Orwellian nightmare won't come to "law abiding" middle and upper-class citizens, who will most be tracked as unwitting lab rats by mega tech firms intent on understanding every aspect of human life in order to monetize it, usually through ads and Chinese-style digital karma, but the marginalized groups--ethnic minorities, political dissidents, and the "mentally unstable" will be persecuted and hounded endlessly by digital means. With mass shootings all over the US, it's only a matter of time until they weaponize the already-built surveillance network to red-flag people. As usual, our own fear of each other is way out ahead, on the leading edge of technology.
- avgDev 7y agoOof private CCTV network, so they can sell the live video feeds. Imagine the possibilities with face recognition. Wanna follow your wife everywhere? Want to follow anyone you want to stalk? No problem for this fee you will have access to our video feed and face recognition software, which will enable you to track anyone and anywhere. Want their DNA? No problem. Want their interests? Sleeping schedule? Work schedule? If you got the money we got the stuff. Future is looking really interesting.
- redisman 7y agoThink about the botnets you can build from cheap IoT with lousy security to basically control billions of devices in peoples homes.
- zipwitch 7y agoDo you want a hot shower after your long day? Touch here to transfer $1 to the malware that just hijacked your plumbing. Try to remove it, and it will do $5000 in damage. A professional home IT security fix will run $1000 and take 3 days, while you camp in your back yard or live out of a motel.
- notJim 7y agoYup, you can already get a terrifying amount of data about people for a small fee to a shady data broker, it's only going to get worse as smart stuff comes more into the real world.
- pacala 7y agoExactly right. Every individual will be a subject of the silent red flag machine, and not even the machine's owners will be able to tell why. No redemption in sight, unless, of course, you have the money to buy an indulgence.