Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa

[PeoplesElbow]

I wonder what it's like in your house. Do you get upset when the people on TV watch you walk around naked?

Alexa, should I have a doctor check this out?

 

[Yooper]

This popped up today over at The Federalist (link):
"Meet ‘Surveillance Capitalism,’ Our Terrifying New Economic Order"

Put simply, Zuboff contends that surveillance capitalism is the constant tracking, analysis, and attempted modification of human behavior for the profit of tech giants who trade in what she terms “behavioral futures markets,” places where knowing what people are very likely to do tomorrow or next year is of enormous value to those trying to sell a product or service.

Surveillance capitalism renders human behavior by tracking, measuring, and analyzing from your smartphone to your smart home—from browsing the internet to private messages or emails with a colleague. This relatively new, dominant force intrudes through cookies and privacy permissions that in most cases must be accepted for a service to work properly or at all, including, for example, many smart home security systems.

Worth the click over, I think.

I was thinking about buying the book the article highlights. But while I'm not too lazy to turn on my lights at the light switch my wife assures me I'm am - in fact - too lazy to read the book once it arrives and she doesn't want yet another door stop.. Never mind, I guess.*

--- End of line (MCP)

*Actually, I did order it....

 

[Yooper]

--- I'm watching you. End of line (MCP)