Smart Gadgets - who’s listening?

[Triassic]

I spotted this article and thought it would be of interest to those contemplating smart homes.

 

For two months in early 2018, technology journalist Kashmir Hill let innocent household items spy on her.

She had turned her one-bedroom apartment into a "smart home" and was measuring how much data was being collected by the firms that made the devices.

Her smart toothbrush betrayed when she had not brushed her teeth, her television revealed when she had spent the day bingeing on programmes, and her smart speaker spoke to the world's largest online retailer every day.

It was like living in a "commercial, surveillance state" with "not a single hour of digital silence", she said.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43747421

[Onoff]

Isn't it Google who have just patented a listening tech that listens to conversations, picks up on keywords etc and "whispers" adverts etc in the background at a near subconscious level?

[SteamyTea]

The WI better not fit one, it may pick up the buzzing then introduce a dirty plug for this product.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5571620/womens-institute-ladies-object-to-vibrators-being-advertised-for-the-first-time-in-groups-magazine/

[Onoff]

20 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

The WI better not fit one, it may pick up the buzzing then introduce a dirty plug for this product.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5571620/womens-institute-ladies-object-to-vibrators-being-advertised-for-the-first-time-in-groups-magazine/

 

Yet you just know most of the prudes refuse to have their washing machines / spin dryer's feet adjusted properly...

 

[Pocster]

I keep all my data local not cloud based . So photos , music etc . With my profile photo bound to be on Cambridge analytical top priority list ?