On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:59:48 -0400 John Newman <j...@synfin.org> wrote:
> > > > On Apr 27, 2017, at 2:03 AM, juan <juan....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:37:40 -0400 > > grarpamp <grarp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera > > > >> Amazon is pitching it > >> as an easy way to snap pictures of your outfits to send to your > >> friends > > > > I can't believe americans are so fuckingly stupid but then I > > think again, and it makes sense. > > of course I agree, but it seems to me this type of "assistant" tech > that listens to everything you say and watches everything you do is > just going to keep getting more and more popular and pushed more and > more by the insatiable corporate maw to fucking gorge on marketable > data... > > Before it gets to a point where it's hard (or impossible) to escape > it would be nice if someone put some serious thought into integrating > layers of PKI crypto into this stuff for privacy I guess you're being sarcastic? =P by the way, vice.com is behind cloudflare and doesn't work at all without JS. I als wasted a few minutes trying a couple of free proxys and they give a blank page too. vice.com, very consistent privacy advocates. > (kinda like what > they had on Mars in The Quantum Thief). Heh ;) > > > > > > > > >> when you're not sure if your outfit is cute, but it's also got > >> a built-in app called StyleCheck that is worth some further > >> dissection. [...] "All photos and video captured with your Echo > >> Look are securely stored in the AWS cloud and locally in the Echo > >> Look app until a customer deletes them," a spokesperson for the > >> company said. "You can delete the photos or videos associated with > >> your account anytime in the Echo Look App." Motherboard also asked > >> if Echo Look photos, videos, and the data gleaned from them would > >> be sold to third parties; the company did not address that > >> question. > > >