RE: IoT: Your thought and views
July 4, 2018 at 7:53 am
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2018 at 8:04 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
I completely agree with the OP. It will get worse when the tech starts to recognise our emotions. There's been a lot of research on affective computing over the years. Amazon recently got in touch about job interviews for Alexa. I haven't responded. I have to say though that Alexa is absolutely not something that I would ever have in the house. It would sit there constantly recording, sending back data to some remote location. Absolutely no way.
I don't even have a mobile phone so I am certainly not going to go for IoT in the house. I use OpenSuse most of the time and dual boot into Windows 7 for specific things. I do have an Android tablet though but I generally try to avoid giving out information. I've had to create a Facebook account and have only ever had one profile picture, of me from behind flying a paraglider in the distance. I ask people not to tag me in photos. But it still makes me uncomfortable knowing that Facebook are building up a profile of me as a person. I deliberately add lots of noise to the data to upset it.
It's also cultural. For example Germany has seen first hand what mass surveillance looks like when carried out by the state to keep the people in line. So dashcams are semi-legal (owning one is legal, indiscriminate recording is illegal, which is how most dashcams get used), sharing the recording is definitely illegal and it's up to the judge whether the footage is applicable in court.
America doesn't (yet) have such a history so Americans are generally more blasé about mass surveillance.
Says the American who isn't aware of how fascism creeps into existence and assumes that legitimate protest will always be legal.
I don't even have a mobile phone so I am certainly not going to go for IoT in the house. I use OpenSuse most of the time and dual boot into Windows 7 for specific things. I do have an Android tablet though but I generally try to avoid giving out information. I've had to create a Facebook account and have only ever had one profile picture, of me from behind flying a paraglider in the distance. I ask people not to tag me in photos. But it still makes me uncomfortable knowing that Facebook are building up a profile of me as a person. I deliberately add lots of noise to the data to upset it.
(July 1, 2018 at 9:44 pm)oldpollock Wrote: I don't think "I'm a special snowflake, and my data matters." I think it's none of anybody's fucking business.
I think the things you point out make a person lazy, dependent, unwilling to take personal responsibility, and incompetent in day to day life.
Just remember you like the loss of autonomy for others and they fell the same way about yours.
It's also cultural. For example Germany has seen first hand what mass surveillance looks like when carried out by the state to keep the people in line. So dashcams are semi-legal (owning one is legal, indiscriminate recording is illegal, which is how most dashcams get used), sharing the recording is definitely illegal and it's up to the judge whether the footage is applicable in court.
America doesn't (yet) have such a history so Americans are generally more blasé about mass surveillance.
(July 2, 2018 at 1:47 pm)bennyboy Wrote: My philosophy is that you only need privacy if you have something to hide.
Says the American who isn't aware of how fascism creeps into existence and assumes that legitimate protest will always be legal.
