Google Patents Reveal Plans to Monitor Our Moods, Our Movements, and Our Children’s Behavior at Home
November 25th, 2018I found myself thinking of a haiku about an imaginary situation in which my father (who died a while back) would be standing in a room, arguing with one of these “smart” speakers and eventually challenging it to a fight with his weapon of choice, a yard-long section of 2×4 lumber.
Old man stands bugeyed
Smart device suggests smooth jazz
2×4 held high
We don’t know what prompted dad to perceive that he needed to take up his combat stance, but the AI sensed danger and somehow knew that dad liked smooth jazz.
Has the AI come up with a way to survive one more encounter with dad?
We exit the scenario with the 2×4 drawn back fully into striking position…
Via: PJ Media:
Patents recently issued to Google provide a window into their development activities. While it’s no guarantee of a future product, it is a sure indication of what’s of interest to them. What we’ve given up in privacy to Google, Facebook, and others thus far is minuscule compared to what is coming if these companies get their way.
These patents tell us that Google is developing smart-home products that are capable of eavesdropping on us throughout our home in order to learn more about us and better target us with advertising. It goes much further than the current Google Home speaker that’s promoted to answer our questions and provide useful information, and the Google-owned Nest thermostat that measures environmental conditions in our home. What the patents describe are sensors and cameras mounted in every room to follow us and analyze what we’re doing throughout our home.
They describe how the cameras can even recognize the image of a movie star’s image on a resident’s t-shirt, connect it to the person’s browsing history, and send the person an ad for a new movie the star is in.
pookie’s weapon of choice is a SIG .380
here’s her haiku:
What? A smart device?
You brought that into our house?!
BAM! Target practice.
Hot job tip for the near future — electronics experts who can dismantle the smart part of these kinds of sinister technologies, rather like the renegade air conditioning specialist (played by Robert DeNiro) in the dystopian movie Brazil (1985).