Into a hundred thousand million pieces.
These patents tell us that Google is developing smart-home products that are capable of eavesdropping on us throughout our home in order to learn more about us and better target us with advertising. It goes much further than the current Google Home speaker that’s promoted to answer our questions and provide useful information, and the Google-owned Nest thermostat that measures environmental conditions in our home. What the patents describe are sensors and cameras mounted in every room to follow us and analyze what we’re doing throughout our home.
They describe how the cameras can even recognize the image of a movie star’s image on a resident’s t-shirt, connect it to the person’s browsing history, and send the person an ad for a new movie the star is in.
Related – The Chinese are making doubly sure public displays of displeasure with their totalitarian regime such as occurred in Tiananmen Square in 1989 will never be repeated. They are instituting a technological surveillance program so pervasive that when completed — quite soon, it seems — it will enforce conformity throughout their giant country on a scale that would stupefy Orwell and Huxley.
I think the new headline / them should be “Can’t spell Google without ogle”
You’re welcome 🙂
edit: shoot. thought i was being original. guess not.
I was going to respond to this Blog Posting but have recently read Orwell’s; “Animal Farm” or was it 1984 (sic-2018) and could feel “Big Brother” leering over my shoulder; as His Minions prepared the special cage to place hungry Rats in their cage over my stomach.
I give in Big Google you are the best Bureaucracy; whether Public or totally indoctrinated Private by the constant Advertisement — Just in is going to rule with AI— or some such meme on almost every piece of bumpf which Googl-ogle sends to my Computer.
Here in Canada multiple agencies listen and monitor. The Chicoms at least are upfront with their control. PM Divisive thinks Statscan’s info grab is peachy. Knowledge is Power and the neo-Marxist agenda proceeds. Far too many Canadians are idiots and choose ‘comfort’ over liberty and privacy.
Imagine how low Catherine No Time McKenna would go if she got her mitts on your thermostat.
You needn’t worry. Her plan is to make it too expensive to heat your home at all, forcing you to choose between freezing to death or abandoning your home entirely.
And if you abandon your house, guess who the government will give it to and how much the new residents will have to pay to heat it?
I am buying a wood stove soon that will heat my whole house. Combined with my generator we will see who will last.
Unless they change some laws drastically or make new oppressive ones, I will not break any.
My latest purchase was made by Vortex Optics.
the anti wood burning police will soon be on the march. check out montreal if you don’t believe me.
If only there were some way to escape this all-pervasive monitoring – say, perhaps, by just not buying any Google Home-enabled devices.
So you don’t believe consumers should have rights. Basic rights. Like the right to privacy INSIDE one’s OWN HOME!!!
What you are saying is that consumers should just STOP eating Romaine lettuce if it happens to be e-coli lettuce roulette when consuming it. Just eat the butter lettuce instead. The government has no business maintaining standards and inspections that keep the food supply safe.
Sorry, I am not a 100% Free Market capitalist. There is a role for civilized government (we the people) to play. And when that government becomes corrupt? … Trump.
“So you don’t believe consumers should have rights. Basic rights. Like the right to privacy INSIDE one’s OWN HOME!!!”
You’re retarded. You don’t know what ‘rights’ are and you have no idea what the proper role of government. Like you could even set up a Google product.
If only people understood that EVERYTHING will be Google Home-enabled, including light bulbs, refrigerators, televisions, clocks, toilets, phones, PCs, microwaves, dishwashers, stereos, speakers, etc. If it has a plug in it, it will be wifi connected and have always-on listening for voice commands.
Because the wifi hardware costs a nickel and its the size of kosher salt. Microphones are similarly sized and priced solid-state devices. There’s no hardware or price limitation to keep them from putting it in -everything-. They can even put it in there and not tell you, as “future-proofing” for the device.
There’s probably an IEEE standard for internet-of-things devices of long standing. The IoT devices may soon be able to create their own mesh-network that connects them to each other in the absence of a wifi router. People are working on that. Its a “feature” in things like light bulbs to be able to sense if someone is in the room, and turn off if the room is empty. Meaning the light bulb network in the house tracks the occupants.
This has been, (for the “digital age” .. a long time coming..).
“In April 2008, former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez dispatched Justice Ministry officials to visit counterparts in the Chinese technology hub of Shenzhen. Their mission, according to a member of the Venezuela delegation, was to learn the workings of China’s national identity card program.”
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“The project languished. But 10 years after the Shenzhen trip, Venezuela is rolling out a new, smart-card ID known as the “carnet de la patria,” or “fatherland card.” The ID transmits data about cardholders to computer servers. The card is increasingly linked by the government to subsidized food, health and other social programs most Venezuelans rely on to survive.”
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“It’s blackmail,” Héctor Navarro, one of the founders of the ruling Socialist Party and a former minister under Chávez, said of the fatherland program. “Venezuelans with the cards now have more rights than those without.”
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“The government now says Venezuelans need it to receive public benefits including medicine, pensions, food baskets and subsidized fuel. In August, retirees protested outside social security offices and complained the fatherland rule limits access to hard-won pensions.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/venezuela-zte/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter
… of course, when you go to the private store and the shelves are empty, then go to the gov’t approved store and see the shelves well stocked, then the need for the gov’t card makes a bit more sense, more so if “you’re on the team”.
I find it strange still, how Hector Navarro, one of the founders of the ruling Socialist Party is so late to understanding what’s going on here. It’s as though he alone actually believed in his cause, that he’d never heard of the book “Animal Farm”.
In countries that control who can or cannot buy at the gov’t store, or the pharmacy, you want to be on the team.
You want to be on the team…
Is the imbecile PM Trudeau aware of China’s greatest export?
That actually sounds like “mark of the beast card”.
Huh? Sounds like the Mormon church to me. They track all members electronically, and if they haven’t paid up their minimum tithing … they’re BANNED from the Temple. Speaking of virtue-tracking.
Sounds like the equivalent of the Soviet styled Torgsin stores and Kolkhoz markets for those people with the funds to pay and the closed department stores, such as the GUMM store near the Kremlin, that sold generally unobtainable goods to “special” and party people.
Let’s just say right off, I have zero sympathy for anyone who signed up for this, for Amazon’s, or will sign up for it. Fools and their freedom are easily parted.
I got rid of Google Chrome when it kept crashing my computer (had to pay $ 220 for repairs on a 13 month old laptop) and when it identified Christian and conservative sites (including this blog) as malware. I am so against big government and the over reaching control of our lives.
Again, breaking them up won’t help—and it will be much easier for proxies of the Chinese government to take over Baby Googles than to take over Ma Google.
The correct course of action is to put Google in the hands of the American people, to be managed for their benefit and profit, not that of a few globalists.
I have bought the Google Home Mini after friends showed me how it works. It is absolutely brilliant with better sound than my Bose system and picks up all radio stations with crystal clear sound. You can request any singer or song you want to hear or even a e-book to be read to you.
and…
If you turn the computer on while wearing a Marilyn Monroe t shirt, you’ll see ads tomorrow for more Marilyn Monroe t shirts…
And it’s listening to you 24/7…….get it?
It’s not listening when YOU want it to, it is always on, spying on you. Welcome to 1984!
There’s that but the music is nice.
“They are instituting a technological surveillance program so pervasive that when completed — quite soon, it seems — it will enforce conformity throughout their giant country on a scale that would stupefy Orwell and Huxley.”
The Chinese experiment with ubiquitous surveillance will be interesting. We should start a betting pool on when the big blowup comes. Because that’s what is -inevitably- going to happen. They’ll just keep tightening the screws until some pissed-off old lady with nothing to lose throws an apple at a cop, and video of it goes viral. Kaboom, baby.
I give it five years.
agreed.
the Beijing bosses have failed to factor in a fundamental aspect of humahn nature; that pervasive crushing thought that the authorities ARE fully aware of every. single. act. and. word.
grinding and grinding away at the subconscious. like a stuck pressure cooker, the more they oppress, the bigger the boom.
it’s a law of nature, like volcanoes or quakes.
I give it 5 to 10 years.
this from the current Epoch Times:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/when-technology-meets-tyranny_2718255.html
and which western leader “admires their basic dictatorship”?
The Epoch Times is one of the very few newspapers of any prominence that takes seriously the task of exposing the crimes of China’s leaders.
It is also one of the very few of any prominence to support Donald Trump.
ITT, Kate encourages violence against a company for offering a product she doesn’t like and says nothing about the NSA that spies on us without consent.