On Apr 27, 2017, at 2:03 AM, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:37:40 -0400 grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera
Amazon is pitching it as an easy way to snap pictures of your outfits to send to your friends
I can't believe americans are so fuckingly stupid but then I think again, and it makes sense.
of course I agree, but it seems to me this type of "assistant" tech that listens to everything you say and watches everything you do is just going to keep getting more and more popular and pushed more and more by the insatiable corporate maw to fucking gorge on marketable data... Before it gets to a point where it's hard (or impossible) to escape it would be nice if someone put some serious thought into integrating layers of PKI crypto into this stuff for privacy (kinda like what they had on Mars in The Quantum Thief). Heh ;)
when you're not sure if your outfit is cute, but it's also got a built-in app called StyleCheck that is worth some further dissection. [...] "All photos and video captured with your Echo Look are securely stored in the AWS cloud and locally in the Echo Look app until a customer deletes them," a spokesperson for the company said. "You can delete the photos or videos associated with your account anytime in the Echo Look App." Motherboard also asked if Echo Look photos, videos, and the data gleaned from them would be sold to third parties; the company did not address that question.