Roy Green - Sat Feb 21 - Is Your Home Spying On You?

It's not just your smart TV which may be spying on you. Your home is filled with gadgetry which performs that very function. Samsung's smart TV, when set up to respond to voice commands, beams everything you say in its proximity over the internet to Samsung and then to other companies with which Samsung decides to share your information.There are the smartphone apps. How many people switch off the requests of the app suppliers to access your passwords, microphones, camera, email communications, etc? And if you do switch them off, is there any guarantee they are in fact off and you're not being monitored by these apps.And a list of words was published in 2013, which if you use them in online communication will cause the government to begin to pay attention to you. "Mexico" and "cloud" are two of those words. How much are we being spied on?
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It's not just your smart TV which may be spying on you. Your home is filled with gadgetry which performs that very function. Samsung's smart TV, when set up to respond to voice commands, beams everything you say in its proximity over the internet to Samsung and then to other companies with which Samsung decides to share your information.
There are the smartphone apps. How many people switch off the requests of the app suppliers to access your passwords, microphones, camera, email communications, etc? And if you do switch them off, is there any guarantee they are in fact off and you're not being monitored by these apps.
And a list of words was published in 2013, which if you use them in online communication will cause the government to begin to pay attention to you. "Mexico" and "cloud" are two of those words. How much are we being spied on?

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