> On Apr 29, 2017, at 5:24 PM, juan <juan....@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >
Hopeful... sarcastic... not much difference, sadly!! ;) > 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. >>> >> >
