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From Jeremy Hsu, technology writer for New Scientist magazine.
Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console. Read the whole article below. It's all money driven. You would think the GDPR enforcers would go after this one, or the ACLU.
For you highly techie types:
The tech companies have been able to "spy" for a long time.
Even when they weren't "legally" permitted to access what people watch, they were tracking where people go by means of where their phones go, and that was pre-"smart" phone era.
I worked as a transcriptionist and sometimes the phone calls of clients or the business meetings of the people working in the field of I guess what you would call "spying" or mining for data or whatever were discussed in the meetings I had to type up transcripts of.
There is nothing that is private or hidden. All the "passwords" and "firewalls" are just to make people think they have some control over the info and not be so paranoid, but the truth is that nothing online can be hidden.
The government can access it. The computer guys who know what they're doing can access it - whether they work for WT or for UBS or for the mafia or whoever...there is nothing hidden.
...and yet the USSS was unable to crack the search history and communications of the kid who shot Donald Trump.
Hmmmmm....
Recently I was talking to someone and I mentioned a product that I might purchase. An hour later, I received an ad for that product. I knew that my phone listened to conversations that were had on the phone, but this was an in-person conversation. I consider that to be an invasion of privacy.
the USSS was unable to crack the search history and communications of the kid who shot Donald Trump.
What kind of security did the intended assassin use?
Recently I was talking to someone and I mentioned a product that I might purchase. An hour later, I received an ad for that product. I knew that my phone listened to conversations that were had on the phone, but this was an in-person conversation. I consider that to be an invasion of privacy.
So was the bug in your phone or the person you were talking to even if the conversation was not over the phone (phone still on)? Or a bug in your home on some device?
Phones and cars and perhaps other devices do listen to conversations that are within range of their “hearing”. Ten years ago I would have thought that was a crackpot idea, but now I think it’s pretty likely the case, given what we know from: Snowden; US spying on Merkel; three-letter agencies controling social media; the technical feasibility of doing so; the increasingly obvious propensity of government and business to spy on everything for their own advantage; as well as my own experiences, and others I know, of the phone apparently reacting to in-person conversations, as the other poster mentioned.
As Slim said, phones listen and then ads that draw upon key words are used to target the user. I have noticed this happening many times. I do think that it is an invasion of privacy.
There are spiritists who are able to "spy" without using the technology.
I agree that it's an invasion of privacy, but people or spirit creatures who don't respect Jehovah's boundaries are less likely to respect the boundaries of anyone else.
Eventually people and spirit creatures that don't respect privacy will be put out of commission. Until then, we just have to deal with it.
If Jehovah wants to blind someone or put up a "firewall", that is within His power to do so.
