The average person hasn’t the slightest clue of what their smartypantsphone is doing. It’s criminal at best - with the worst part being a person has to click ‘yes’ on the terms of use agreement or the smartypants phone won’t work.
At least with Samsung, if you don’t ever enable their ‘Bixby’ spyware (it’s their version of Apple’s Siri), it (supposedly) doesn’t go operational and the phone works as normal….. However, I fully believe that Samsung’s ‘Bixby’ is running in the background anyway, tracking, saving and sending data like E.T. phones home - there’s that hush-hush complex in sandy Utah that most people haven’t a clue about.
And anyone who willingly / purposely gets one of those ‘digitla assistants’ and worse, creates a ‘smart home’ in concert with a digital assistant has voluntarily given up their 4th Amendment rights.
Also, the average person hasn’t the slightest idea how much of their day is captured on camera, with many (almost all) of the new systems having full “analytics”, including facial recognition, audio capture, etc. ; recordings/data saved forever - cataloged, broken out to whatever the end-user wants, because the end-user enters the save parameters.
That last bit, I know of what I speak, I’m in the business as an integrator - access control, surveillance and video intercom systems. I’m getting out. I want no part of where the industry is going, especially when dealing with government agencies.
The average person hasn’t the slightest clue of what their smartypantsphone is doing. It’s criminal at best - with the worst part being a person has to click ‘yes’ on the terms of use agreement or the smartypants phone won’t work.
At least with Samsung, if you don’t ever enable their ‘Bixby’ spyware (it’s their version of Apple’s Siri), it (supposedly) doesn’t go operational and the phone works as normal….. However, I fully believe that Samsung’s ‘Bixby’ is running in the background anyway, tracking, saving and sending data like E.T. phones home - there’s that hush-hush complex in sandy Utah that most people haven’t a clue about.
And anyone who willingly / purposely gets one of those ‘digitla assistants’ and worse, creates a ‘smart home’ in concert with a digital assistant has voluntarily given up their 4th Amendment rights.
Also, the average person hasn’t the slightest idea how much of their day is captured on camera, with many (almost all) of the new systems having full “analytics”, including facial recognition, audio capture, etc. ; recordings/data saved forever - cataloged, broken out to whatever the end-user wants, because the end-user enters the save parameters.
That last bit, I know of what I speak, I’m in the business as an integrator - access control, surveillance and video intercom systems. I’m getting out. I want no part of where the industry is going, especially when dealing with government agencies.