Are you worried about machines spying on you?

No. I'm not worried.

I was just discussing something with a similar answer in the national budget thread.

Before you start worrying about your microwave, you should think about how you live your life. Do you have am electric vehicle, or a gasoline vehicle with tracking? Do you use any Social Media? In fact, are you online at all? Do you have CCTV, does you neighbor? Does your city? Do you share personal information with neighbors?

I think we should also consider what constitutes "spying". Something like a Microwave will be collecting relevant data, it's not listening in. Whereas, say, Amazon's Alexa is built specifically to hear your voice, which means it's listening all the time.

We live in a post-digital-age. We are moving toward the Information Age. There is nothing we can do to stop it. We voted for it by spending our money and time on it. It's not a choice, and eventually even the opportunities to opt-out of services will go away. We trade our information for convenience. Alexa can help you with all kinds of things, Social Media allows us to communicate 24/7, etc.

I saw someone mention that they don't take their cell phone to protests in order to avoid being tracked. That wouldn't work well in Europe, and especially not in the UK. The authorities use face-recognition camera's these days. In fact, local to me, they have a team with face recognition camera's travel to various locations. They set up scan everyone - and if you're wanted, they get an alert and stop you. This isn't space age tech, this is common now.

Which gets back to - you can't stop it. Older generations will find that bothersome, but younger generations? They've been born with it.

I accept this is a reality.
 
outlander said:
@VaughanJB

It's not my reality and I take active steps to make sure it never is;)
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Well, the very act of replying here means you're being tracked. For example, the forum admin here now has your IP address. Your internet provider does too. Let alone any online vendors you use. Then you have CCTV installed by others, and on and on. I wish you well, but I don't think it's a war you can win.
 
VPN using a Linux PC. If the government really wants to spy on me it's going to require effort. I'm not going to spy on myself and make it easy for them. Convenience is not worth more than privacy or freedoms.

It's not OK and saying this is the way things are now will never be a valid reason or excuse.
 
My grand daughter here is a terrible driver and my son put her on their insurance to give her warning beeps when
she's doing something she shouldn't, like crossing the center line, changing her radio station, etc.
Now her car beeps like a dog chewing a squeaker toy. I was nervous riding with her and asked, why it was beeping,
she knew what it was and said
she paid it no mind as it beeps if she is over the speed limit by 1mph, beeps if she changes her station or moves her phone.
Now.... that I will not volunteer to have. I live in Missouri with HILLS, so yes sometimes I pick up a bit of speed on a downhill.
I only want my car to beep when I have a car issue, That was just too much for me. I will pass on the discount as I would have a wreck
looking around to see why it was beeping.
 
jujube said:
Are you worried about your microwave collecting data?
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Ha. The last microwave I bought was in 2003. It lasted about 3 years, then quit working and was sent to the trash pile. So, then I started using another microwave that once belonged to my parents and I'm still using it (works fine). I believe they bought it in 1983 . . . so, 42 years, and still going. I'm not worried in the least that it is capable of spying on me or collecting any data.
 
IrishEyes said:
My grand daughter here is a terrible driver and my son put her on their insurance to give her warning beeps when
she's doing something she shouldn't, like crossing the center line, changing her radio station, etc.
Now her car beeps like a dog chewing a squeaker toy. I was nervous riding with her and asked, why it was beeping,
she knew what it was and said
she paid it no mind as it beeps if she is over the speed limit by 1mph, beeps if she changes her station or moves her phone.
Now.... that I will not volunteer to have. I live in Missouri with HILLS, so yes sometimes I pick up a bit of speed on a downhill.
I only want my car to beep when I have a car issue, That was just too much for me. I will pass on the discount as I would have a wreck
looking around to see why it was beeping.
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An ex girlfriend had that. I remember here complaining that she drove perfectly and the app still criticized her. It's ridiculous.
 

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