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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/

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Scary thought is that there is a good chunk of the population clamoring for just this sort of thing.

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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.

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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

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