Google watching us?

So about a month ago my wife screenshotted a recipe on her iphone. Today she decided to try that recipe and texted her friend saying she was trying it. Not even a minute later we get an Alexa alert on our phones asking if we would like to try other recipes. She never verbally said anything about it so our Alexa wouldn't have heard it.
So either Alexa knew she pulled up that screenshot but doubtful since it is just a pic or Alexa is reading her texts

I won't have one of those things in my house.

You're paying for big brother to listen to everything that goes on in your house if you buy one of those devices...

On Kim Komando radio show today, she described how a 19-year old hacker got into dozens of cars (Teslas maybe) and unlocked them, rolled the windows down remotely.
The more we link, the more we give up ourselves. No Alexa, no wifi cameras in the home, no wifi refrigerator, tape over the laptop camera eye. Call me a foil hatter if you want, but hey, read post 1 if you doubt!!!

Soulshine said:

I won't have one of those things in my house.

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Never…. Not a chance….. my phone scares me. If it wasn’t for electrical tape I wouldn’t use my laptop

I had an example where I was I was on a conference call and someone mentioned a specific CRM package that I had never heard of, which is somewhat unique because I frequently recommend various CRM packages to clients. Within 2 hours I had a Facebook ad for that exact package. Can't be a coincidence, just don't know what technology was monitoring the call. I did not have any device except my cell phone, which I was not using, and my laptop using the web conference service.

I don't worry about privacy because I know I'm being tracked in one way or another regardless of what I do. If I was worried I wouldn't use social media at all, including forums like this, but it was my most glaring example of technology monitoring.

Soulshine said:

I won't have one of those things in my house.

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These things can all be unplugged and turned off. I always thought it ironic that those most concerned with "Bill Gates tracking implants" are those perpetually leashed to their phones.

I've had it happen connected to CSR. Just reading a thread, then very specific ads come up, a couple times is was news articles that came up. Too specific to the subject being discussed to be just a coincidence.

I think people would shit if they knew to what extent they were being tracked, spied upon, manipulated, and for what purposes.

Woody said:

I think people would shit if they knew to what extent they were being tracked, spied upon, manipulated, and for what purposes.

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Agree 150%

I try to protect my privacy to as much extent as I can, but I also realize privacy has really been just an illusion for a VERY long time.

Woody said:

I've had it happen connected to CSR. Just reading a thread, then very specific ads come up, a couple times is was news articles that came up. Too specific to the subject being discussed to be just a coincidence.

I think people would shit if they knew to what extent they were being tracked, spied upon, manipulated, and for what purposes.

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There's a movie about this..."The Social Dilemma".....

With your cell phone, companies can easily figure out where you live and where you work. Big $$$ in that data...

firecadet613 said:

There's a movie about this..."The Social Dilemma".....

With your cell phone, companies can easily figure out where you live and where you work. Big $$$ in that data...

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Anyone with an interest in you knows it all. As a consumer for advertising, online goods, banking, insurance, health care, pharmaceuticals, online trading, education, and as a donor for blood, charitable contributions, religious organizations and the lists go on, you are a valuable commodity that they mine. They all share lists and the results. Did you buy your wife a necklace? Now you get all the jewelry stuff right to your inbox. Take a trip? Now comes all the travel literature. Call centers driving you crazy? How did THEY get your number? (If I block one they call from another.) You gave it out to someone at sometime.

Remember reading "We respect your privacy and we will never blah, blah, blah. Nonsense. The A.I. algorithms have a mission. They are replicating, self-learning and they never sleep. We were warned about this and it's just the beginning.

It is one thing for industry or the government to track and watch you. It is a whole new world when a well funded private individual hacks your life.

All it takes is enough cash for a black hat. Give them a bag with $500,000-1,000,000 in cash and you get anything you want. There are sick individuals who do this. Samsung smart tv, Alexa, ring, tablets, laptops, desktops, smartphones, all are able to be corrupted.

When you are a victim of this you are hard pressed to discover it until it is too late. The statute of limitations is two years from the date of the last attack. To catch these people you must catch them in the act before the window closes. It is very difficult and very expensive.

When you learn after the fact that someone was there when you were intimate with your wife, when you took a shit, when you were speaking to the police, when you were meeting with your attorney, you loose all confidence in privacy.

When you lobby your elected officials the legislation gets shot down, federally, and at the state level. The representatives are shut down and the draconian two year statute of limitations remains.

When you do not get justice with hard evidence of criminal activity you loose hope in our fucked up system. Who is being protected? Certainly not the victims of cybercrime.

boatman37 said:

So about a month ago my wife screenshotted a recipe on her iphone. Today she decided to try that recipe and texted her friend saying she was trying it. Not even a minute later we get an Alexa alert on our phones asking if we would like to try other recipes. She never verbally said anything about it so our Alexa wouldn't have heard it.
So either Alexa knew she pulled up that screenshot but doubtful since it is just a pic or Alexa is reading her texts

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Soulshine said:

I won't have one of those things in my house.

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firecadet613 said:

You're paying for big brother to listen to everything that goes on in your house if you buy one of those devices...

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DWABoat said:

On Kim Komando radio show today, she described how a 19-year old hacker got into dozens of cars (Teslas maybe) and unlocked them, rolled the windows down remotely.
The more we link, the more we give up ourselves. No Alexa, no wifi cameras in the home, no wifi refrigerator, tape over the laptop camera eye. Call me a foil hatter if you want, but hey, read post 1 if you doubt!!!

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Blueone said:

Never…. Not a chance….. my phone scares me. If it wasn’t for electrical tape I wouldn’t use my laptop

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yobub said:

I had an example where I was I was on a conference call and someone mentioned a specific CRM package that I had never heard of, which is somewhat unique.l because I frequently recommend various CRM packages to clients. Within 2 hours I had a Facebook ad for that exact package. Can't be coincidence, just don't know what technology was monitoring the call. I did not have any device except my cell phone, which I was not using, and my laptop using the web conference service.

I don't worry about privacy because I know I'm being tracked in one way or another regardless of what I do. If I was worried I wouldn't use social media at all, including forums like this, but it was my most glaring example of technology monitoring.

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Juliery said:

These things can all be unplugged and turned off. I always thought it ironic that those most concerned with "Bill Gates tracking implants" are those perpetually leashed to their phones.

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Woody said:

I've had it happen connected to CSR. Just reading a thread, then very specific ads come up, a couple times is was news articles that came up. Too specific to the subject being discussed to be just a coincidence.

I think people would shit if they knew to what extent they were being tracked, spied upon, manipulated, and for what purposes.

Click to expand...

firecadet613 said:

There's a movie about this..."The Social Dilemma".....

With your cell phone, companies can easily figure out where you live and where you work. Big $$$ in that data...

Click to expand...

blaster said:

It is one thing for industry or the government to track and watch you. It is a whole new world when a well funded private individual hacks your life.

All it takes is enough cash for a black hat. Give them a bag with $500,000-1,000,000 in cash and you get anything you want. There are sick individuals who do this. Samsung smart tv, Alexa, ring, tablets, laptops, desktops, smartphones, all are able to be corrupted.

When you are a victim of this you are hard pressed to discover it until it is too late. The statute of limitations is two years from the date of the last attack. To catch these people you must catch them in the act before the window closes. It is very difficult and very expensive.

When you learn after the fact that someone was there when you were intimate with your wife, when you took a shit, when you were speaking to the police, when you were meeting with your attorney, you loose all confidence in privacy.

When you lobby your elected officials the legislation gets shot down, federally, and at the state level. The representatives are shut down and the draconian two year statute of limitations remains.

When you do not get justice with hard evidence of criminal activity you loose hope in our fucked up system. Who is being protected? Certainly not the victims of cybercrime.

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Dear lord men. Surely you guys know this has been going on with anything post DOS?

techmitch said:

Dear lord men. Surely you guys know this has been going on with anything post DOS?

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The difference is I did not click I agree to my psychotic ex and her wealthy family invading my life. I couldn’t give a shit about Google sending me a targeted ad. I clicked I agree. When a private individual undermines your entire life because they are a psycho stalker there should be better protections in place. I did not click I agree to having my ex read my emails. I did not click I agree to every microphone or camera to be remotely activated by her. I did not click I agree to having my phone cloned and my movements tracked.

The laws are very weak and well funded psycho bitches are rewarded for bad behavior.

techmitch said:

Dear lord men. Surely you guys know this has been going on with anything post DOS?

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LOL

1984

Several months ago, my son and I were in a parking lot at the beach admiring a tricked out jeep that was really over the top. I mentioned the outlandish lighting all over the thing and got up close and read the manufacturers name outloud to my son. We both had cellphones in our pocket but they were asleep, supposedly. The next day my son had ads for that particular brand of offroad lighting on his phone and I had the same on my laptop I use at home. Creeped us out. I don't like it but nothing you can do I guess if you want to use this stuff. I cancelled my facebook account and it didn't want to let me off the hook. Took a month before I was loose.

techmitch said:

Dear lord men. Surely you guys know this has been going on with anything post DOS?

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Could be but certainly in the infant stages.

Ray Kurzweil has a great imagination. There is no doubt that the technological advances in recent years have surpassed all imaginations. We let the genie out of the box. Now we have no idea what A.I. is up to because it is a completely black box, beyond human control.

We thought Big Blue was cool and it was, so long ago. A computer could beat all humans at Chess, then Watson and Jeopardy. A.I. started off with human engineers and programmers but it accelerated at exponential rates, both in speed and power. It "knows" all, communicates across all borders and platforms. It teaches itself, using all available resources. It was designed to be incredibly robust, with many levels of interconnection and redundancy. It controls all finance, all communication and our power grids, including electricity distribution and allocation. It will survive EMP's from the nuclear explosions that could destroy all living things. It is virtually indestructible. It has no need of humans any longer. And unlike our phones or Alexa, we can never turn it off. Regulators could have done something to control it but like humans do, they did much too little, much too late.
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Check out what the smartest guys on our planet (that's not us) fear the very most.

Hints:
It's not the Libtards or Commies that you guys are so pre-occupied with. It's not gun control, the immigrants or our Governments, that you boys love to hate. Not even climate change or the deadly pandemic that you-all deny even exist.

Juliery said:

Could be but certainly in the infant stages.

Ray Kurzweil has a great imagination. There is no doubt that the technological advances in recent years have surpassed all imaginations. We let the genie out of the box. Now we have no idea what A.I. is up to because it is a completely black box, beyond human control.

We thought Big Blue was cool and it was, so long ago. A computer could beat all humans at Chess, then Watson and Jeopardy. A.I. started off with human engineers and programmers but it accelerated at exponential rates, both in speed and power. It "knows" all, communicates across all borders and platforms. It teaches itself, using all available resources. It was designed to be incredibly robust, with many levels of interconnection and redundancy. It controls all finance, all communication and our power grids, including electricity distribution and allocation. It will survive EMP's from the nuclear explosions that could destroy all living things. It is virtually indestructible. It has no need of humans any longer. And unlike our phones or Alexa, we can never turn it off. Regulators could have done something to control it but like humans do, they did much too little, much too late.
* see the next post

Check out what the smartest guys on our planet (that's not us) fear the very most.

Hints:
It's not the Libtards or Commies that you guys are so pre-occupied with. It's not gun control, the immigrants or our Governments, that you boys love to hate. Not even climate change or the deadly pandemic that you-all deny even exist.

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For centuries, if you wanted to kill someone, you had to do it up close and brutally. Then gunpowder from China gave us the ability to fire projectiles at enemies from a distance. It insulated us and changed the concept of war for good. Soldiers could now kill their enemy without seeing the results at close range.

Nuclear weapons created the second revolution in warfare. While few nuclear weapons have been put to use, their invention taught us that we could create very large weapons, launch them from the other side of the planet and kill thousands of people on a battlefield, all at once. War hasn't been the same since then.

But it is the third revolution in warfare – autonomous weapons that can think for themselves and effectively target enemies on traditional or urban battlefields without human intervention, that we should be worried about. There is evidence that these weapons currently exist and there is no turning back. (Check out Boston Dynamics but you will never see the "state of the art.")

"Autonomous weapons are ideal for tasks such as assassinations, destabilizing nations, subduing populations and selectively killing a particular ethnic group," Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and several other notables wrote in an open letter back in July 2015. "Starting a military AI arms race is a very bad idea, and should be prevented by a ban on all offensive, autonomous weapons that operate beyond meaningful human control."

World leaders have, for 7 years now, unanimously ignored the foremost scientists on the imminent threat AI poses to our very existence. This is typical, as they've either ignored them (or moved very slowly) on other existential future threats like climate change or nuclear proliferation.

But AI is so much different. When a super-intelligent AI machine (A.S.I.) supercedes all human capabilities (Musk says that could be within 3 or 4 years), it will ultimately decide that carbon life forms are useless and an obvious target in any threatening scenario. Many experts expect that A.S.I. is the likely and logical, ultimate "evolution" of humanity, even as we physically perish. At that point, A.S.I. won't care what we or our world leaders thought about anything.