This video is from 2017ā¦ and their system is literally called skynetā¦
170 million CCTVās in china expected to add 400 million more by 2020
USA estimated only 30 million but a much smaller population and the numbers are exactly known.
Iām sure homeland security is watching china with their
surveillance boners raging.
CCTV coverage, for good or ill, will increase; no doubt about it.
Good case scenario:
A child is abducted. A child is rescued, using CCTV.
Bad case scenario:
Your doppelgƤnger abducted the child. You get charged with the crime, using CCTV.
Letās just hope in this case, you have a rock solid alibi and a really good lawyer. 
Has anyone seen the recent episodes of āThe grand Tourā? There was one where they went to China. Some of the footage they brought back reminded me of this Black Mirror episode with the white bear.
I hope I will never have to go there or to any place where privacy even has a bad reputation.
āIām so happy the govt is watching my every step because they make me behave so itās good for everybodyā.
Personally, I think the more we get involved in stupid behavior, the more ājustificationā the gubment gets for their stupid behavior. Weāve lost ourselves and the bad bastards are taking advantage of it.
Read 1984 then get back to me. Also being IT and information Assurance for a bit it is a very real and scary aspect of life. However there is some good that comes out of it. I was able to catch 5 child porn rings. Humanity scares me the most if I am being real. Not the internet.
Absoluteās be here. I LIKE!
I want a bunch of these! 
ā¦ not to wear, but to have in every room of my home!
I was talking to my spouse the other day at the kitchen table about the need for a hearing aid for my right ear. Then, Iām reading an article the next day on the innerwebsā¦ mind you, neither me or the spouse had physically searched the innerwebs for anything having to do with hearing aidsā¦ and lo and beholdā¦ What advertisements should start popping up in the articles which Iām reading? Iāll give you one guess 
Weāve all sat back, blindly and blissfully enjoying the innerwebsā¦ giving up all of our information with glee and wild abandonā¦ while all the time, companies were figuring out how to invade every aspect of our life and make a profit on our information, without our consent. Now, everyone carries a happy little data collecting device on their hips.
When and where does it stop?
You tell meā¦ The only way to make it stop is to not have any innerweb feedback devices in your possession. But, that shouldnāt be. We should be able to have any device that we want, without the fear of someone listening or tracking our every waking or sleeping move. 
I assume you have Alexa or Google Home?
Nope! ā¦just our iPhones
I will NEVER have those items in my home. I guess the only way to get around our iPhones listening and tracking us for now is to wrap them in tinfoil and stick them outside the house in a Tupperware containerā¦ or maybe a lead lined box! 
Oh, but I donāt mind. Iām not a criminal and have nothing to hide. Why are you so opposed to it? What are YOU hiding?
Thatās what people always used to say and in doing so, they all let it get this far. And those same people will argue āGosh, itās just a little ad, what are you going on about?ā
Funny! I took a quick gander for apps which emit a 24 to 26 Hz jamming signal or any vocal jamming application which you can run on your phoneā¦ Nothing!
Wellā¦ I guess were just gonna have to run the water in the kitchen sink, just like they do in all those spy movies! Lots of wasted water 
but at least we wonāt be understood on listening devices!
I think your situation is worse. At least you know that if you have Alexa stuff in your house they are listening. Itās really bad that iPhones are surreptitiously listening in. Thatās way worse to me.
Iām sure somewhere in the TOS is a little blurb, carefully worded for CYA purposes, that says something like āSome apps may use the phoneās camera and audio to record, to āenhance your experienceā.ā Otherwise that sounds pretty illegal to me! Iāve declined to install many apps that claim they need such permissions.
Well, as far as voice enabled AI goes, itās not about the seemingly harmless ad targeting. People understand that the human interface is audio, and that in order to have that service they need to listen. Itās not that people are naive or stupid. Itās people accepting the risk.
In @Kinnikinnickās case itās worse since he does not want those electric ears listening.
Itās ALL good brothers and sisters. FIRST they SELL us the dirty devices, we get HOOKED (cause weāre st00pid), THEN, we figure it out (some of us), THEN, they sell us jammers to block the devices we just bought from them.
#HypotheticalMatters
All in how you look at it, I guess. Dirty is in the eye of the beholder. When you know they are listening, it isnāt dirty. If they do use the collected audio/video for nefarious purposes, sure thatās an issue. But for me, Amazon rolled these out for one reason- Money. Use an Amazon AI and youāre caught in the web of a multitude of Amazon services. Prime Video. Prime Music. Prime Shopping. Prime everything. All about the money, honey.
I actually think Amazon is still doing only that. I figure, if they are using their spy ring for evil reasons and they are caught, they have a lot to lose, so they donāt do it. So hopefully they feel that way too.
Not that I trust them. Or anyoneā¦
Is there really a big difference? To me itās just the same kind of attitude, the same kind of people.
Unless governments around the world make proper legislation to make it illegal to invade privacy and have punishments that can even put a company like Apple or Google out of businessā¦ itāll keep getting worse.
People canāt even do anything about it anymore. You can choose not to bring it into your house but then your pal comes over with all that spyware on his phone and then youāre screwed after all. Thereās just no stopping it.
I agree with that. Even huge fines wouldnāt deter a huge company. There needs to be cessation of business clauses rather than fines; something with teeth.
I think there is. Acknowledging and accepting an audio AI interface is pretty different from having a phoneās mic listening when you didnāt know.
