linus6948 Posted May 30, 2021 Report Posted May 30, 2021 (edited) I first thought this was an "Internet Hoax" but it was actually true and I immediately opted-out of this opportunity which was easy to do. You have till June 8th to opt-out of this experiment. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/amazon-devices-will-soon-automatically-share-your-internet-with-neighbors/ Edited May 31, 2021 by linus6948 Quote
MackTheFinger Posted May 31, 2021 Report Posted May 31, 2021 It's a race to see who takes over the world, Bezos or Musk.. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted May 31, 2021 Report Posted May 31, 2021 who ever would win, we all would lose... Quote
Dan Hiebert Posted June 1, 2021 Report Posted June 1, 2021 Scary thought is that there is a good chunk of the population clamoring for just this sort of thing. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted June 3, 2021 Report Posted June 3, 2021 it is not due to people not reading the full impact of the user agreement......how can they be so bold is the better question. Quote
Los_Control Posted June 3, 2021 Report Posted June 3, 2021 Los checks the zipper on mouth to be positive is closed All I got to say about this subject. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted June 3, 2021 Report Posted June 3, 2021 consider it a partial payment for all those free apps..... 1 Quote
TodFitch Posted June 4, 2021 Report Posted June 4, 2021 39 minutes ago, Plymouthy Adams said: consider it a partial payment for all those free apps..... Way too true. Back when I was working in Silicon Valley there was a saying that “if you aren’t the customer then you are the product.” I really don’t like being a product so I actively resist. I avoid nearly all social media sites other than places like this forum. And I refuse to buy any indoor video monitoring device or device that listens for commands. That is something everyone can do. I also host my own cloud services (mail, calendar, contacts, file sharing, etc.) and actively block tracking from the likes of Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. Those are technically more difficult things to do and I don’t expect most people can or would want to do. Probably veering too far toward a political line here, but I find it interesting that most people seem to be fine with private companies learning everything about them. And I mean everything as they are likely to know more about you than you know yourself. “I have nothing to hide” seems to be the reaction when informed of this pervasive spying for profit. Yet those same people are worried about “the Government” learning a fraction of that. Oddly, now that private companies have all that data it is trivially easy for various agencies at different levels of government to get it often without a court order or other safeguards. If a company has the data for sale all an agency has to do is buy it, no court proceedings to deal with. Quote
Los_Control Posted June 4, 2021 Report Posted June 4, 2021 See if I can sneak this in and dance around the real problem. A few years ago 6-8? there was a bid up for the government wanting to create a data farm that would collect sensitive information collected from different agency cia, fbi, doj etc... Was the biggest data farm ever imagined ... something like 600 giilion jiga bytes. Was a lot of competition for the bid from many companies. Western Digital, Seagate, real hard drive manufactures that would develop new technology while building new larger hard drives to deal with the job at hand. Anyways in the end, the Government gave the complete contract to Amazon. While they have to purchase hard drives I imagine from others ... maybe now they are building them? Just saying Amazon already running the worlds biggest data farm, why would they not want to expand Quote
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.