Carissa Veliz has an unsettling report published on The Daily Mail:
Read this and you won't click 'I agree' ever again:
We're being spied on by phones, computers, TVs, cars –
even the doorbells. Worse, argues Oxford professor
CARISSA VELIZ,we're doing it to ourselves
by giving away our data
Most of us know that our
personal data is being collected, stored and analysed thanks to our
relationship with our mobile phones, computers and the internet. But are we
really aware of the full extent of the privacy invasions into our daily lives?
Let's start at dawn. What is the
first thing you do when you wake up? You probably check your phone.
By doing that, you are informing a
whole host of busybodies – your smartphone manufacturer, app developers and
your mobile company, as well as intelligence agencies (if they happen to be
watching you) – what time you wake up, where you've been sleeping and who you
share a bed with, providing they keep their phone with them too.
If you wear a smart watch it will
have recorded your every movement in bed – including, of course, any sexual
activity. Share a picture or record your thoughts on Facebook, or type a search
into Google,
and that information is tracked and stored.
Perhaps you've run out of sugar and
you decide to ask your neighbour if she has some spare. Standing outside her
door, you notice there's a new smart doorbell, which records images of those
who come near. It's anybody's guess where the footage is going to end up and
what it will be used for.
You turn on your smart TV. It is
probably identifying everything you watch and sending the data to the manufacturer,
third parties, or both.
If you had time to read the privacy
policies of the objects you buy, you would also have noticed that your TV picks
up and records your spoken words and reserves the right to transmit them to
other organisations.
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Read the rest here.
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