Lately, it has emerged that the Smart TVs like the ones from Samsung and game consoles like Microsoft's are recording what we do and transmit this to 3rd parties, no matter whether you are aware of it or not.
You can read this in "clear" in their Terms and Conditions, that you probably already agreed on...
“Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition”
Spies like James Bond, really no longer exists
2400 years ago, Sun Tzu said there are five kinds of spies. 1) The local spy, is a serviceman or employee working in the enemies district. 2) The insider spy, is having a local official working for you. 3) a converted spy, is an enemies spy captured and bribed/threatened to become a double agent. 4) Doomed spies, are basically, bait for the enemy 5) surviving spies, are ones that come back with intelligence.
More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches, beside your iPad, computer.
97% of the world population has a cellular phone and 67% of these are smartphones with a GPS, camera and a microphone. The majority of the western world is online on Facebook and Twitter - telling everybody were they are and what they do. Most of us pay with credit cards, as well as most cities are monitoring the traffic via number plate recognition software.
“We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher”
So of course, governmental agencies are tapping into all this data like CIA Director David Petraeus explains how he cannot wait to spy on you through them, as he said in WIRE's article two years ago!
Apparently, the quantity of data collected is so big that the government spy agencies can't handle it, according to a Independent report described in The Guardian.
Indeed we have bugged our homes and we are carrying around all necessary equipment to monitor our-self 24/7. But the irony in all this, is that it's us who stand in a line for hours, spending hundreds of dollars of our own money, to finance this!
I guess we are all smart people now, with our smartphones and smart TVs ;)
